In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided to create a new category for solar system objects called "dwarf planets", and Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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The Solar System has only eight planets now as Pluto, which was the ninth, has been reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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Pluto was the smallest planet until August 2006, when the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a dwarf planet. It is the largest dwarf planet known.
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Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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