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ProfessorGAC

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11. That's How I Learned It
Sun Jun 27, 2021, 07:29 PM
Jun 2021

The Inner solar system is the region inside the asteroid belt.
The gas planets are mid, and the ice planets are outer.
And, we lost Pluto because better telescopes revealed sizeable objects in its orbital path.
A planetoid that hasn't cleared its path of debris is not a planet. (Clearing the path is the 3rd of 3 criteria for planet status.)
Out near Saturn is pretty far away from the asteroids.

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