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There are eight planets in our solar system. The originally ninth planet Pluto, since 2006 is no longer counted as a planet, but was moved by the International Astronomical Union to the category of dwarf planets , of which several more have been discovered at the outer edge of the solar system.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your scholarly philosophy.
Shakespeare—Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
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van den Heuvel, E. (2016). The Sun’s Backyard: Our Solar System. In: The Amazing Unity of the Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23543-1_2
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