[fwdude]

“Dwarf Planet” my azz. Pluto has never stopped being a planet in my book. Doesn’t grandfathering apply anymore?

[ETL]

“Dwarf Planet” my azz. Pluto has never stopped being a planet in my book.

It all depends on how they define "planet". I doubt Pluto gives a rat's rear end what we call it.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Recently I visited Lowell Observatory, where Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.

They are QUITE adamant that Pluto is the ninth proper planet of the solar system.

[Red Badger]

It has moons.

It orbits the Sun.

It’s a planet...............

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Pluto has never stopped being a planet in my book.

I agree completely. The IAU's redefinition of Pluto came in 2006. The body deciding the issue was composed primarily of astrophysicists, not planetary scientists. By the IAU's definition Neptune is not a planet either - if it was it would have "cleared" it's orbital space of Pluto and a lot of small Kuiper Belt Objects.

Pluto was the only planet discovered by an American. It's demotion occurred at about the nadir of George W. Bush's popularity. So what you had was a gang of leftist, internationalist, materialist academics taking revenge on George W. Bush and a country they hate.

[Flick Lives]

“Dwarf Planet” my azz. Pluto has never stopped being a planet in my book. Doesn’t grandfathering apply anymore?

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The real question is does Pluto self-identify as a planet?