What, now former, planet is small, icy, and rocky?
neptune
mercury
jupiter
pluto
Pluto was different in other ways. The outer planets are all gas giants. Pluto is small, icy, and rocky. Pluto has a diameter of about 2,400 km. It has only about one-fifth the mass of Earth’s Moon. Pluto’s orbit is tilted relative to the other planets. It's orbit is shaped like a long, narrow ellipse. Pluto’s orbit sometimes even passes inside Neptune’s orbit.