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But, he admitted, "Three years is such a long time (to wait for IAU approval) that I think I'm going to have a hard time calling Makemake by its real name."
 
Wee Pluto, considered a planet for 76 years, was relegated to the Solar System's second division at a stormy meeting of the IAU in August 2006.
 
A "dwarf planet" is defined as a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is big enough to be rounded by its own gravity but which has not cleared its neighbouring region of debris and is not a satellite.
 
The group now has four members. Pluto, Makemake and Eris constitute "plutoids," or Pluto-like objects in the Kuiper Belt, a girdle of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. The fourth dwarf planet is Ceres, which inhabits the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
 
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