4.6 billion years, just a kid
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3h45m youtube video essay "The Rise and Fall of Pluto" incoming
Saying Pluto isn't a planet is a huge L for astronomy and is 100% corelated to the stemification of our world.
Huh, and here I was thinking that the pluto thing had actual scientific backing. I am now Pluto's strongest defender.
Nice video. Didn't expect to be convinced today that the Moon is a planet
I personally very much like that our solar system is possibly filled with hundreds of planets
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Neptunians be like 
"yall hear what they did to Earth? When I was a kid there were *5* planets."
Maybe if he didn't kidnap his wife, we wouldn't be so mad.
Trump's changing all the gulf names, I hope he decides Pluto is a planet again.
Scientists should've went with the 50 planets approach for a while, then people would be relieved when they decide to axe ice boi.
Oh you mean that glorified asteroid?
The ability to demote a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
demonstrates that fact by choking one person and still needing to hold out your hand in choking motion with a clear sign of sight to do so really you or anyone could have also just shot the guy
Yeah, doing the Kylo thing of redirecting blaster bolts midair would have made more canonical sense
Never realized this site was so anti-Pluto
That's messed up, right?
I know that's right
Pluto? Like the user?
Jokes aside, why do people see "dwarf planet" as a demotion? It's simply is different type of planet. It's literally still called a planet, a dwarf one.
It's not a demotion, it's a description. People don't say a small intestine is not an intestine anymore or is somehow lesser than the large intestine.
Is it because people think being a dwarf is bad? Is it some religious thing where evangelicals are trying to throw shade at science for "changing its mind"? If a dwarf planet isn't a real planet, is a dwarf human not a real person?
The IAU redefinition, which only 441 out of nearly 10,000 members were present for the vote for it, and did not have the six months of advance notice required by their own bylaws, and is not at all used in the scientific literature apart from explicitly talking about the definition itself, made it explicit that they do not consider dwarf planets to be planets.
STOP THE COUNT!
It's a meme, no one actually gives a shit.
But also it clearly is a 'demotion', from a real planet to a "planet"-with-qualifier. The planets have have a higher cultural status and recognition than the other random floating rocks in our solar system.
Jokes aside, why do people see "dwarf planet" as a demotion? It's simply is different type of planet. It's literally still called a planet, a dwarf one.
It's also not like it's the first time. The dwarf planet Ceres was once considered a planet until it was reclassified in light of so many other objects sharing its orbit.
It's possibly as simple as it being part of recitation when kids learned the solar system's planets and now it's just not. Some folks have a real hard time wrapping their head around the idea that a 'fact' they learned and knew their whole life has been decided changed. Or maybe that isn't it. I dunno. My concern for Pluto is mostly just for shitpost value. I don't really give a rip whether it can clear its own orbit or not.
Is it some religious thing where evangelicals are trying to throw shade at science for "changing its mind"
It's not religious necessarily, but it is absolutely tied in with cultural anti-intellectualism. I'd say astronomers are catching a stray on this one as a result of all of the other things that have been turned into culture war political talking points.
Rock and Stone is good in my book.
Dwarf planets don't get included in the solar system models. That's the limit of most people's understanding.
Maybe our solar system models need to be more accurate.
Ceres needs more love
The problem is if you include all the dwarf planets the list more than doubles and really you should include most of the moons too, Pluto is the biggest dwarf planet and it’s like, 1/3rd the size of our moon and 1/6th the mass. It’s really really tiny.
Pluto is the biggest dwarf planet
Eris is the most massive and initially thought to be the largest too, but now it's known to be slightly smaller than Pluto. It was discovered in 2005, it initially appearing bigger than Pluto, plus the discovery of many similar, smaller objects nearby is what prompted the discussion of reclassification.
The universe is messy and any definition is going to encounter edge cases: planet-or-star edge cases became "brown dwarfs" and now there are also "sub-brown dwarfs" for its edge cases.
if you include all the dwarf planets the list more than doubles and really you should include most of the moons too,
Oort cloud gang
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