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Topic	Should Pluto regain its planetary status?
ParanoidObsessive 02/28/25 4:43:22 PM #24:	willythemailboy posted... Why stop there? There are 9 trans-Neptunian objects (10 if Charon is included as a separate planet) and Ceres in the asteroid belt all above 800km in diameter. True, though Ceres fails a different criteria than Pluto does (and Eris). So changing things to keep Pluto as a planet doesn't automatically validate Ceres. But I don't disagree that we could potentially reevaluate the whole mess. We could probably come up with better definitions given enough time, but ultimately no matter what definitions we use we're still drawing an arbitrary line somewhere. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:984202483] in Should Plu... [t:80942146]...</cite> <quote><cite>willythemailboy posted...</cite><quote>Why stop there? There are 9 trans-Neptunian objects (10 if Charon is included as a separate planet) and Ceres in the asteroid belt all above 800km in diameter.</quote>True, though Ceres fails a different criteria than Pluto does (and Eris). So changing things to keep Pluto as a planet doesn't automatically validate Ceres.But I don't disagree that we could potentially reevaluate the whole mess. We could probably come up with better definitions given enough time, but ultimately no matter what definitions we use we're still drawing an arbitrary line somewhere. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76"POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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