PLUTO IZ A PLANET

Mooncrasher

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#10
Pluto is 4% the mass of Mercury.
Why are people so obsessed with this? Dwarf planet is a perfectly good label.
 

Danny Batten

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#11
Pluto is 4% the mass of Mercury.
Why are people so obsessed with this? Dwarf planet is a perfectly good label.
Exactly, so many people say it’s still half the size of mercury but they forget that volume goes up cubed with size
 

The Astronomer

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#20
Pluto is a planet...a dwarf planet :D

But honestly, as a planetary science enthusiast, there is not much difference between a planet and a dwarf planet, but it's not about the size.
 
#24
I’m fine with dwarf planet, but the new iau “technical” definition of planet is piss poor...

Since the Earth has countless astroids in its orbit is it not a planet?