• smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    Not really, no… it’s a comet or at best a rogue kuiper belt object. It’s smaller than earth’s moon, its orbit is wildly elliptical, and it hasnt cleared out its orbital path. Many reasons not to consider it a planet, and so it was dropped.

    If Pluto was to be called a planet, then Ceres would also need to be called one, and everyone seems happy with calling that an asteroid.