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Have you ever heard of Pluto? Well if not, you’ve come to the right place. In this post you will find out why Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, what it has become and so much more!

Pluto isn’t a common Planet anymore like Mars, Jupiter Saturn etc, instead it is a Dwarf Planet. Pluto is a Dwarf Planet because because it didn’t pass the three criteria for passing as a Planet! The 3 criteria for passing as a planet is this – 1. It has to orbit the Sun.                                                                                                                                                                          2. it needs to be roundish.                                                                                                                                                                        3. it has to have a clear orbit.

Pluto passed the first 2 but unfortunately didn’t pass the last one. This leaves Pluto as a Dwarf Planet, NOT one of our main Planets!

In 2005 an object smaller than Pluto was found. We now know it as Eris. Eris and Pluto are now with Ceres, Haumea and MakeMake. The last one is fun to say – Mah-kay Mah-kay. Fun to say right? Don’t feel sorry for Pluto though, some day when it is does clear all of the three criteria, Pluto will become one of our common Planets. It just needs a clear orbit!

Do you have a favourite planet? Including Dwarf Planets!

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Bonjour Blog Readers,

As you may know already if you have been reading my recent posts. This term my pod is learning about Space! On thursday my class started doing a Planet project. Our teacher put us in 8 groups of 3 and assigned us each a Planet (including Earth)! My group is Emily, Jaxson and Harper (Make sure to check out their blogs), the Planet we got is Saturn. Saturn is the Planet known for its rings. We were supposed to get it finished Thursday afternoon but we started a bit too late. My favourite part is getting to research about the planet – Saturn. My least favourite part is when we have to stop!

Unfortunately I can’t find out how to add a Canva video to my Blog. But I will post it when I find out how. If you know how to add it, feel free to comment down below.

Here are the links to Emily, Jaxson and Harper’s blogs

Jaxson

Emily

Harper

This Term our Pod is learning about space. This week we have been writing a Sun report. We have had to research, read other reports and even do some science. The science we did was using playdough and placing different sized balls of it next to beads (planets). The beads were on a string placed in order of closest to farthest planets from the Sun. FUN FACT – We are the 3rd planet from the Sun, if we were any closer we would all be dead!

My favourite part of this activity was getting to learn more about the Sun. My least favourite part was nothing, because I loved all of it! I hope we get todo another activity like this soon.

Here is my writing…

What do you think of my writing? Let me know in the comments!

Let me know about something you know about space…