Is Pluto a planet?

[Bentrada]

No. Can we end this thread already? Asking if Pluto's not a planet is like asking if red's a color.

Maybe its not...

[Neoconstantius]

If anything other than a dwarf planet, Pluto should be considered a binary planetary system with its moon, Charon, which is nearly the same size.

And then, of course, we would need to reclassify Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and probably 2007OR10, 2002TC302, 2007UK126, 2003UZ413, 2001UR163, 2003VS2, 2007JJ43, 2005RN43, 2010EK139, 2004GV9, 2002MS4, 2003AZ84, 2008ST291, 2010RE64, 2010FX86, 2005RM43, Salacia, and Ixion as well, among countless other possible dwarfs. Is it really worth recognizing potentially hundreds of tiny "planets" just for the sake of nostalgia?

[Mike the Progressive]

Dwarf planets are still planets.

All Dwarf Planet's are bastards in the IAU's eyes...

I have a dream that dwarf planets will be considered planets too! Where the two are not segregated by the stalls of inequality; where dwarf planets, figuratively speaking, aren't asked to sit in the back of the bus. Where no planet, drawfy or not, is denied their right to be a planet. Free at last, oh free at last. Thank Science Almighty, we're allowed to call a Pluto a planet at last.

[Gandoor]

No. Can we end this thread already? Asking if Pluto's not a planet is like asking if red's a color.

That last part is debatable.

[TaQud]

I really doubt a character from Disney would become a planet.

[Bentrada]

I really doubt a character from disney would become a planet.

Disney*

[Mkuki]

I've always held that it is. Damn revisionists...

[Mkuki]

No. It's a tiny little freak of nature that does not deserve the kingly title of "planet".
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But that asshole, Jupiter, does?

[The Sivent Isles]

I really doubt a character from Disney would become a planet.

You underestimate the power of The Walt Disney Company.

[Mike the Progressive]

I really doubt a character from Disney would become a planet.

You underestimate the power of The Walt Disney Company.

Well after John Carter and the Lone Ranger, can you blame him?

[Ruridova]

For all intents and purposes it's a dwarf planet as far as I'm concerned.

To elaborate my position, when it first happened(the classification change) I made a big fuss about it and whined a lot and called the IAU names and considered writing a bitchy letter to them about it because I was in grade school, and accordingly young and foolish. Now that I'm slightly less immature(slightly) I can see why they did it(Ceres, Eris, Senda, Haumea, Makemake, etc.) and I consider Pluto a dwarf planet.

[TaQud]

You underestimate the power of The Walt Disney Company.

Well after John Carter and the Lone Ranger, can you blame him?

maybe Pluto vs Pluto could be there next big movie...

[Dread Lady Nathicana]

"I had a throwaway question that I wanted other people to entertain me with answering" is not sufficient grounds for an op. I think we had an actual topical convo on this some time back, but I'm disinclined to go digging for it atm. Knock yourselves out with the search function if it interests you - I'm sure it's in there somewhere.