"Merlin has noticed over the years that many people would like to demote Pluto to an “–oid” status. But Pluto is twice the size of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, and 50 times the size of the largest comets."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson in: "The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet", p. 51
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