>>6970505I agree. Pluto and Eris are both planets that have a very eccentric elliptical orbital path due to their distance from the sun. They might as well be considered planets but "muh planet cant take 557 years just to get around the sun, muh planet cant be rocky after the gas giants, muh planet cant be tiny, muh gravitational dominance, hurrrr." The classification of a planet being more than a round (or pretty close to round) object with the sun (or some other star) being the center of its orbit was the best definition before the "clearing the orbit through gravitational dominance" bullshit came into play. My reasoning for this is because there's still a possibility in a few hundred or thousand million years in the future, pluto and Eris could possibly "clear the orbit" since they both have a strong enough gravitational pull to be the orbital center of a body (both have at least one moon) and both have the necessary qualifications for the original definition of a planet.
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