Ascientist discovers a new object in the kuiper belt and claims it is a dwarf planet. what would have to be true about the object for the scientist to be correct?

For the scientist to be true, this planet has to: be in the direct orbit of the sun, to have enough gravity to crush into an equilibrium shape. The difference between a dwarf planet and a planet consist in the fact that the  planet has  ``cleared the neighborhood``, a scientific expression= it has become gravitationally dominant, that only its satellites are under its gravitational influence. Because the dwarf planet has not ``cleared the neighborhood``, it is classified as a dwarf planet, not a planet.