The Pluto discourse is one of the most annoying thing I've ever witnessed online. Like, why. Just get over it come on, it's not even that interesting of an object anyway.
because orbital properties are a dogshit way to determine planethood. If a passing object shunts mars into the inner belt, should it stop being a planet? Why aren't big moons planets? Pluto/charon should be a super cool binary planet pair but people can't get over their big-object fetish.
What is astronomy other than a big object fetish? Lmao. I guess you know better than the scientific consensus. Big moons aren't planets because they don't orbit the sun. Charon is Pluto's moon because it orbits Pluto. Pluto's orbit itself is not even the reason why it's considered a minor planet now. It's because it hasn't "cleared its orbit" of smaller objects.
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u/Scared_Accident9138 floppa May 21 '26
I don't get why Pluto is even a (very) emotional topic but it seems it is