>>16670383>is Ceres a planet? Is Eris a planet? Is Makemake a planet?Of course they are.
Don't you call them dwarf planets? Dwarf what you say?
>There are hundreds of shitty little dwarf planets in our solar system.No, there are six of them, seven if you count Mercury.
>change the definition of planet to require that it has cleared its orbital path of other objectsThis is arbitrary and has nothing to do with the nature of the object you are discussing. There was a time when Jupiter had not cleared its orbit. Was it not a planet until that happened? The Earth has not fully cleared its orbit either. The reason Pluto hasn't cleared its orbit, is Neptune. So Neptune isn't a planet either by your definition. Never mind this rule was established by an unannounced vote at 6 in the morning after the IAU conference's schedule had concluded, and almost everyone who was eligible to vote was not in attendance. Many were already on their way home.
Finally, planet isn't a scientific term. It predates the IAU or any similar authority, and dates from ancient Greek long before anyone even knew what the fuck they were. Tomatoes are vegetables, dolphins are fish, covid is a flu, Pluto is a planet, and OP is a fag.
