{"id":6726,"date":"2026-08-24T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:18:20","slug":"pluto-was-demoted-from-planet-to-dwarf-planet-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6726","title":{"rendered":"Pluto Was Demoted from Planet to Dwarf Planet in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13143\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13143\" class=\"wp-image-13143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Pluto-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pluto photographed by New Horizons\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pluto photographed by New Horizons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006<\/strong>. The International Astronomical Union had to either change Pluto\u2019s status as a planet or add many more planets, so Pluto was placed in a different category. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/ice-dwarf\/en\/#:~:text=More%20Fun%20Facts%20About%20Pluto,moon%20in%20the%20solar%20system.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pluto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006. The International Astronomical Union had to either change Pluto\u2019s status as a planet or add many more planets, so Pluto was placed in a different category. Children could learn more at: Pluto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5022,5806,1297,1298,1296,691],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5022","tag-august-24","tag-dwarf-planet","tag-international-astronomical-union","tag-planet","tag-pluto","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29658,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/29658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}