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Posted by: drpolyphemus 1 year, 4 months ago

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drpolyphemus1 year, 4 months ago

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Pluto wasn't even considered a planet when it was discovered. But making it a planet made it the ONLY planet discovered by an American. Making it a planet is ridiculous because you must make thousands of other fragments of the same size that are now known to exist in the same region planets as well. It was strictly political.

It's like making one new small island a new continent and then saying all small islands, even those a bit larger are not continents.

and if 9 is a BETTER number, then 9000 must be an EVEN BETTER number. A thousand times better. What vacuous thinking.

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  Ratskii1 year, 4 months ago
  
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  I would say that as of this moment there are only four other bodies in Pluto's range that would need to be given planetary status, and I'm good with having 13 planets. Has a certain je ne sais quoi, don't you know.
  
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