r/pluto • u/plutoisaplanet572 • Jun 04 '26
Pluto is a planet
https://youtube.com/shorts/YXYAWiibpwg?si=zkpnbfklDv2BAl-N
Hi. I truly believe Pluto is a planet and that the 2006 IAU definition is WRONG. Here’s why
1) The IAU states that the object must “clear its neighborhood” which doesn’t make sense because if you put Earth in Pluto’s orbit it wouldn’t classify as a planet either
2) Only 424 scientists actually voted at the event, meaning the vote was only like 3.2% of scientists.
3) Mike Brown, the one responsible for Plutos death tagged himself as “PlutoKiller” on X and even wrote a BOOK bragging about it. The book is called “Why I killed Pluto, and why it had it coming.” (This one isn’t really a reason but I included it lol)
So, using all of that, I can confidently say that Pluto is a planet and the IAU is wrong.
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u/angry_staccato Jun 05 '26
Sounds like you're a dwarf planet hater. Dwarf planets are in fact really cool, and I won't accept this slander.
Have you even read "how I killed Pluto..."? Not saying that it will change your mind. It probably won't. But the name for the category of the thing Pluto is matters so much less than actually learning about these bodies.
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u/plutoisaplanet572 Jun 06 '26
Bro pulled up with ‘Have you even read How I Killed Pluto…?’ 😭
This is actually crazy. You’re full Cody from SML energy — the pretentious know-it-all who thinks recommending one memoir makes him the smartest guy in r/pluto.
“Dwarf planets are cool and I won’t accept this slander” my ass. We get it Cody, you’re built different.
Still doesn’t change the fact that Pluto deserves planet status and your little book recommendation ain’t changing that. Go read a different book and come back when you’re ready to admit you’re wrong, genius 💀
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u/Brief-Luck-6254 Jun 04 '26
You need to find something to get mad at that's not our understanding of the universe changing after you left middle school.
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u/nwbrown Jun 05 '26
I don't think this person has started middle school.
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u/plutoisaplanet572 Jun 06 '26
Marvin really said “I don’t think this person has started middle school” 😭
Bro you’re 40+ years old with the receding hairline and depressed mustache doing full puppet dad bit in r/pluto… telling us we’re too young?
The irony is crazy. Go sit on the couch in your red shirt and blue tie, tell Jeffy to shut the fuck up, and let the actual Pluto stans talk grandpa.
Still waiting on that “I was wrong” admission too btw 💀→ More replies (2)
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u/SF_Bubbles_90 Jun 04 '26
The word planet isn't owned by the iau And by the way it just means a big round thing in space. (But not a star or black hole lol) We have about 35ish in our solar system.
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u/street_fame187 Jun 04 '26
Science doesnt work by voting. The I.A.U was wro ng to put it to a vote to begin with. There is a youtuber named Kyplanet that recently made a video explainign the geophysical characteristics of many different solar system objects currently classified as dwarf planets, asteroids, and moons that geologically are interesting enough to be considered a planet.
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u/Aussie18-1998 Jun 04 '26
Pluto is a planet. A dwarf Planet and it has 4 others with the same classification.
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u/DCWhitworth Jun 04 '26
What they actually should do is kill the term ‘planet’ as a definition. It groups very dissimilar things together and serves no useful scientific purpose. It was a word coined by the Ancient Greeks for things in the sky that didn’t act like stars. They included the moon and sun but not the earth, we’ve been mucking around with the definition ever since.
It dismays me the amount of energy that goes into arguing about the definition and whether Pluto should be a planet. Pluto is an amazing place and will be no different if you call it a planet, a dwarf planet or a unicorn. Pluto doesn’t care.
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u/angelwolf71885 Jun 04 '26
Earth hasn’t cleared it’s orbit either there are earth crossing astroids still
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u/Joalguke Jun 04 '26
1 Earth would probably clear It's orbit if placed where Pluto is
2 So? They must have had the quorum or they wouldn't have voted.
3 So he's petty and/or funny, so what?
Pluto is not dead as it was never alive, it has not been demoted it is now King of the Kuiper Belt
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u/Commercial-Box-2828 Jun 05 '26
I thought the official label became Planetoid? It's a subcategory of planet, it's planet- adjacent in the text books still, right?
I think king of the asteroids is much more fitting, but that doesn't mean your definition isn't valid.
The fact that we called it a planet for so long, and it's feature in "planet pack" dlcs for games is never going to go away.
Saying it doesn't fit an official description isn't dissing Pluto, it feels good to get that out. That's how I felt at first.
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u/DefinitionOk6382 Jun 06 '26
Si el hipotético Planeta Y es tan grande como la Tierra, el estar ubicado tan lejos no lo descalifica como planeta. Y si Plutón estuviera en una órbita interior creo que se vería más como un asteroide que como un planeta, para lo que no basta con ser rocoso y esférico.
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u/Fuzz_Apple Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
If you want to call it a planet, that's cool, but I believe the rationale for the reclassification is fair too. I think it's primarily because Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's orbit, if they were not locked in an orbital resonance they would crash into each other. Otherwise it would be a planet. Nostalgia never gets old lol.
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u/GregHullender Jun 04 '26
So what's your argument for why the moon isn't a planet? If you moved the moon to a solar orbit, it would definitely be a planet. Or Ceres. It used to be a planet but got demoted when the rest of the Asteroid Belt was discovered--much the same as Pluto got demoted when the rest of the Kuiper Belt was discovered. Should Ceres be a planet too?
You really can't get past the basic fact that the solar system has four different major categories of objects in it: the Sun, the 8 planets, the Asteroid Belt, and the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was initially misassigned. That's all.