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Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier ... for wobbles that astronomers had observed in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. He searched for Planet X from 1905 until his death in 1916, without luck.

For decades, it captivated imaginations with its icy surface and distant orbit beyond Neptune. But in 2006, Pluto’s planetary reign came to an end when the International Astronomical Union ...

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both very rocky and icy. By including these properties in their model ...

the committee declared that Pluto no longer qualified as a planet because of its position in the cluttered Kuiper Belt, where thousands of objects sit beyond the orbit of Neptune. Pluto ...

So, after the discovery of similar worlds deeper in the Kuiper Belt, which is a doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.