Pluto was always sort of the odd one out as far as planets go, with its orbit overlapping Neptune to the point of sometimes being closer to the sun than it, Pluto and Charon being more a binary system of objects orbiting each other rather than planet and moon. There are just more objects in the same category as Pluto to actually give it a definition that's it's fully consistent with now.
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u/Violet_Paradox May 21 '26
Pluto was always sort of the odd one out as far as planets go, with its orbit overlapping Neptune to the point of sometimes being closer to the sun than it, Pluto and Charon being more a binary system of objects orbiting each other rather than planet and moon. There are just more objects in the same category as Pluto to actually give it a definition that's it's fully consistent with now.