I didn't say that you were. I said that you should put yourself in the shoes of those older generations of students who memorized the names of the 11 planets. O

I didn't say that you were. I said that you should put yourself in the shoes of those older generations of students who memorized the names of the 11 planets. Or the 13, or 17, or dozens or however many had been discovered the year that their textbook was printed. Eventually they just gave up and started calling them all “the Asteroid Belt”. If we had repeated history more closely, students would have memorized the names of the first few Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud objects to be discovered. Repeat after me: Pluto, Albion (aka 1994 QB₁), 1993 SB, 1993 SC, 1994 GV₉, Arawn (aka 1994 JR₁), 1994 TB… Or if you prefer to order them by size: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, Sedna, Salacia, 2002 MS₄, 2002 AW₁₉₇, Varda, etc, etc.