Therefore, the IAU says Pluto can't sit at the cool kids table with Venus and Saturn; its proper place is with bitch-ass dwarf planets like Quaoar, Sedna, and Orcus. Pluto's demotion was partially ...

It's one of the fastest-spinning objects in our solar system. Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune. It has a ring and a small moon called Weywot. Pluto is ...

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