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Space - Planet

Planet

A large object made from rock or gas that orbits a star. The planets in our Solar System are : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto was once considered to be planet but now it has been re-classified as a Kuiper Belt object, because its orbit resembles that of the short-period comets that orginate in the Kuiper belt.