In before morons that will go “Looks like a planet” without realizing they’re conferring the same status on nearly a dozen other objects.
Pluto’s a planet, nyah nyah. ;’)
I see Pluto as a hypermoon of Neptune. It is not in orbit around it, per se, but it is held in place by Neptune, in a resonance with its solar orbital period. So I believe it really is “the ninth planet” in dynamical terms.
You won! You’re post beat the other morons.
Bodies that form a sphere...Ceres and Vesta comes close. Kinda lumpy though. Ganymede and Titan are bigger than Mercury, but they are still planetary moons.
I suppose a sentient civilization that possibly exists on some of the ‘super earths’, might have a different definition of ‘planet’.
Pluto is not on the ecliptic kind of tilted.
It’s not a given what sun orbiting bodies are to be called. It’s a determination we give to a group to make. A group that studies such things. I am not unhappy with the current status of Pluto. Neither was I before it changed
“In before morons that will go “Looks like a planet†without realizing they’re conferring the same status on nearly a dozen other objects.”
In after some moron thinks counting to a dozen is difficult and should be avoided.