Identify a dwarf planet from the following list.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Pluto.

Key Points

Pluto is a dwarf planet in our solar system.

The dwarf planet is a celestial body that is orbiting around the sun and a mass to assume a nearly round shape.
It has not cleared the neighbourhood space around it and not comes in the satellite category.

Mars:

Planet	Characteristics
Mercury	It is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system. The orbit period around the sun is 87.97 days. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of Gods.
Venus	It is situated at 2nd place from the Sun and also called as Earth’s ‘sister planet’ because of mass, size and proximity to the sun. It is the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon. It is having rotation period of 200 Earth days and orbit period around Sun 224.7 Earth days. It is named after the love and beauty goddess from Roman.
Neptune	It is a type of trans-Neptunian object in Kupier belt and was discovered in the year 2000. It is having elongated shape because of very fast rotation and the surface is in red colour due to the presence of organic compounds. It is named after the Hindu deity Varuna mentioned in Vedic texts.
Pluto	It is an icy dwarf planet inside the Kupier belt. It was discovered in 1930 and declared as the ninth planet in the solar system. In 2006, it was formally classified as a dwarf planet by International Astronomical Union. It is made up of ice and rock, 1/6th mass of the moon and 1/3rd of its volume.