moniquill:

Do you also want Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris to be planets? Because if so we can talk. If not, STFU, there’s a reason that Pluto lost planet status. It is not a solar body more significant than any of those.

“According to current definitions, objects in orbit around the Sun are classed dynamically and physically into three categories: planets, dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies. A planet is any body in orbit around the Sun that has enough mass to form itself into a spherical shape and has cleared its immediate neighborhood of all smaller objects. By this definition, the Solar System has eight known planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto does not fit this definition, as it has not cleared its orbit of surrounding Kuiper belt objects.^[123] A dwarf planet is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite.^[123] By this definition, the Solar System has five known dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.^[78] Other objects may be classified in the future as dwarf planets, such as Sedna, Orcus, and Quaoar.^[124] Dwarf planets that orbit in the trans-Neptunian region are called “plutoids”.^[125] The remainder of the objects in orbit around the Sun are small Solar System bodies.^[123]”

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