[Moonman62]

Yet it’s the armchair guys who have to point out how terrible a requirement it is that a planet has to clear its orbit.

[Paladin2]

How clean would your house be if you were to only get to clean each room every 248 years?

[Telepathic Intruder]

By the way, the article is wrong when it say Jupiter hasn't cleared its orbit of asteroids. Most asteroids have been herded into the asteroid belt by Jupiter, which is just outside Mars's orbit. The Trojan asteroids have been herded into clumps that are always at a distance from Jupiter. The only asteroids which Jupiter occasionally encounters have unstable orbits, not stable ones.

And there are those that say Neptune hasn't cleared its orbit because Pluto's orbit crosses it at one point. But Pluto has been forced by Neptune into a 3:2 orbital resonance where it never comes close to Neptune. So again, Neptune has cleared its orbit.