Why is Pluto not a planet

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Like why is it not included in solar system i don’t get it

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Planet is an arbitrary definition, chosen so that the Sun has only a handful of planets around it. If Pluto was a planet, the definition would be too broad and the sun would have hundreds of planets. So scientists decided a definition that would exclude Pluto and all of the extra almost-planets with it.

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