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What are the eight planets in the solar system?

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The planets in our solar system are:

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

Dwarf planets:

Pluto
Makemake
Haumea
Ceres
Eris

Many more "large" bodies are considered as dwarf planet candidates, including Sedna and 2007 OR₁₀

Pluto is not technically a planet, but used to be considered the ninth planet until astronomers realized that if they included Pluto as a planet they would have to add hundreds more planets.
The solar system used to have nine planets until 2006, when the IAU officially defined "planet" for the first time. As part of the new definition, Pluto was reclassified as a "Minor Planet" (or dwarf planet), thus reducing the total number of planets to eight.
mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

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