RE: Saturn is the new moon king!

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I was briefly a science teacher for 6th grade students like 13 years ago and when we were covering the amount of moons each planet had I was very forthcoming to the students about how "nobody really knows if this is true yet" and it is nice to see this information still coming out.

20 new moons... wow... i wouldn't have expected that all in one go.

Question: Is Pluto a planet or not? And what happened to planet X?



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I guess "He who can does; he who cannot teaches" explains your brief tenure.

As for Pluto, it is currently considered a planetesimal which may or may not in the future become a fully fledged planet. It is argued that the origin planets and formations of them come from cosmic dust which stick to each other and form larger and larger bodies.

As for Planet X, I believe they are considering it the new 9th planet.

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