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I get that you’re joking but ffs it’s been two decades and we have good reason for Pluto to be a dwarf planet.
by edgyquant 5y ago
I get that you’re joking but ffs it’s been two decades and we have good reason for Pluto to be a dwarf planet.
- mattmoose21 5y agoOh yeah, name 4 good reasons. /s
- edgyquant 5y agoEris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong
- ithkuil 5y agoLet's make them all planets! Let's fight for the small planet against the tyranny of the giants! First they came for Pluto and I didn't speak out because ...
- captainbland 5y agoWe should demote Earth, Mercury, Venus and Mars for being too small. I'm tired of these terra-centric definitions!
- DocTomoe 5y agoGood reasons beyond "hey, if we make all the new objects planets, children will have to learn a lot more names in that completely pointless exercise to know all the planets?"
- edgyquant 5y agoClassifications exist for a reason. If we considered everything big enough to be a sphere a planet then the term would be close to useless.
- dragonwriter 5y agoI mean, we called the things we currently just call “planets” “major planets” instead, and include “dwarf planets” as an additional subsets of planets instead of a separate category, and the terminology would be more consistent. It would be a good way to complete the terminology shift that split what used to be minor planets into dwarf planets and small solar system bodies (including reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.)