8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 53?According to Hubble:
Our solar system officially has nine planets and one star: the Sun. In order from the Sun out, the planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The discovery of an object larger than Pluto in 2005 rekindled the debate over whether such objects, belonging to the "Kuiper Belt" - a collection of icy bodies located beyond Neptune - should be called planets. Pluto itself belongs to the Kuiper Belt.
On Sunday, July 31st, 2005, CNN’s Sara Weisfeldt and Kate Tobin ran an item which questioned the 9 ... read more and comment here.
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