For some reason my brain was stuck thinking this was about Plato and not Pluto and I couldn’t figure out what it was trying to say

Of course Pluto’s a dog, have they even watched the cartoon?

You hear about Pluto? That’s messed up right?

kind of bullshit though.

If pluto was a bit closer with a smaller orbit, it would have cleared it.

Being a planet should be more about geology than where it is situated (we have even terms for planets with no orbits “rogue planet”).

Having a “dwarf” qualifier would be fine, but it is a qualifier.

And it was mostly done because we kept finding more planets and didn’t want to update the posters. That’s bs, imagine if when we began discovering new elements we made up some bullshit rules to keep the periodic table small?

Heard some alternative definitions that are interesting, based on their geology. If it is just a pile of debris loosely attached then not a planet, big enough for geology to happen (new minerals formed by pressure and becomes round) planet. It makes moon a planet, unless you want to include parameters like “must orbit a star”. but that seems arbitrary.

Let the moon be a planet AND a satellite of another planet.

I want news whenever they discover a new planet, no one cares when they name a new dwarf planet.

make solar system posters updetable like periodic tables.

What if the dog is called Pluto and the planet Sparky?