So Do YOU Think Pluto is a Planet?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February 27, 2022 8:03am CST
I ... I don't really care. I mean, I imagine we Earthlings would rather that the Solar System had 9 planets than '8 planets & a dwarf (or a "trans-Neptunian object").'
CNN says some researchers found out that Pluto's 'bigger & more influential than they first thought it was.' But I hear that--if they make the IAU include Pluto in its new definition of "Planet"--they'd have to include a few other 'objects in the Kuiper Asteroid-Belt' in our new list of 'Planets.'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/24/world/pluto-no-longer-planet-space-scn/index.html
So, did Mickey Mouse name his dog after a planet or -after the god of the underworld (after-whom the trans-Neptunian object was named)?
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@RebeccasFarm (87062)
• United States
27 Feb 22
I always like little Pluto.
I remember learning of it when in elementary school.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Feb 22
"My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza" ... the way we remembered the usual order of the planets "Mars, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto."
What'll the kids use now, "My Very EVIL Mother Just Served Us NOTHING?
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Feb 22
or maybe The Kuiper Belt will become 'an archi-planet-go' 
