Pluto
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
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Summary
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Pluto has roughly one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. Originally considered a planet, its classification was changed when astronomers adopted a new definition of planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome, Citation Needed, podcast where you choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, and pretend we're experts. |
| 0:29.1 | Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now. I'm Heath, and I'm joined by four heavenly bodies who all spend plenty of time on the elliptical cecil no a tom and |
| 0:40.0 | eli all right the only thing heavenly about my body is that it's high |
| 0:43.3 | i actually i used to use the ellipticals at planet fitness but now it's just fitness |
| 0:50.3 | nicely done nicely done they told me i had to stop you fitness. Nicely done. |
| 0:55.6 | Nicely done. |
| 0:56.8 | They told me I had to stop yelling |
| 0:58.5 | we on the machines, |
| 0:59.9 | but I told them that was the whole point. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, |
| 1:01.6 | no. |
| 1:03.3 | All right. |
| 1:04.3 | Noah, |
| 1:04.4 | what person placed thing, |
| 1:05.9 | concept, |
| 1:06.4 | phenomenon, or event? |
| 1:08.1 | What we're going to be talking about today? |
| 1:09.9 | Pluto. |
| 1:11.1 | Excellent. |
| 1:11.8 | So what is Pluto? |
| 1:14.0 | It's the largest dwarf planet in the solar system, and it's my vote for the cutest of the |
| 1:19.2 | known heavenly bodies. |
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