Answer 1:
Pluto is neither a planet nor a moon. Moons
are objects in space that orbit around a planet,
like Earth's Moon, or Phobos and Deimos, which
orbit Mars. Planets are objects in space that
orbit around a star, like our Sun. However, there
are lots of objects that orbit the Sun, so we only
call really big objects planets. Pluto used to be
considered a planet, but it isn't quite as big as
the rest of the planets, and it also orbits the
Sun in a really weird orbit. Because of this,
astronomers recently decided to not call Pluto a
planet anymore - it is now considered a dwarf
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