#Dwarf Planets are Planets

[unpredictablestuff]

i would complain less about pluto being demoted if they would really let it be a dwarf planet like they said instead of saying it's not a planet, refer to major planets as major planets instead of using the single word planets, and start talking about all the dwarf planets in the solar system because those are all lovely and horribly unappreciated

if they had said yes dwarf planets are planets then instead of it being the loss of pluto it would have been the rescue of ceres

[3liza]

I don't know how many times we have to say this but this is because the United States of America does not have public transit in any form that a European would recognize as such outside of a few very small, highly-dense municipal locations like NYC and Chicago, and having used both those systems and the U-Bahn i can firmly assert that the U-Bahn blows American subways into smithereens. we especially do not have accessible interstate passenger train service outside of that one commuter Amtrak loop in the northeast. the country is designed to force its citizens to use cars and only cars, and the government has made it policy to incentivize car ownership since the 1940s and punish any other form of transit, including just walking around. do you understand? the vast majority of roads here do not have bike lanes. when we do have bike lanes they are not protected by a curb or divider, they are just white lines painted on the asphalt. you will regularly encounter roads and streets--inside of cities and suburbs, not just in rural areas--that do not have sidewalks

[zenosanalytic]

I just want to say that the sentence "Pluto is not a Planet; it's a Dwarf Planet" is Ridiculous, cuz "Planet" is right there.

Like: something can be a subclass of something, It's Fine. We can say "Pluto is a Planet, it's just a Smol Planet"; that's a Totally Fine Thing to Say, we say that about ALLOT of things!

It is more important in science and scholarship that we have clear definitions which we apply consistently, than that the outcome of those definitions be aesthetically pleasing to us(in fact, that's kind of what science IS). That a handful of high-profile planetarium administrators in the 90s thought it'd be a Hassle and Ugly to have dozens of objects in the Solar System count as "planets" is not a valid reason to 1)create a new definition of "planet" specifically designed to prevent that outcome, and then 2)apply it inconsistently, as we have done, to exclude a specific celestial body(Pluto).

Frankly, doing that strikes me not just as unscientific, but also as a little bit juvenile. The guy who came up with the plan Even Wrote A Book Bragging About It for fuck's sake. I've never read this book and have no idea if it actl does that beyond the title, I just thought this sentence was funny, but that's also sort of my point: should we really be making epistemological determinations on the basis of subjective taste? Of Course Not. That isn't science, and excluding Pluto isn't scientific. Pluto is spherical, it orbits a star, and it's big enough to have a significant gravitic effect on other celestial bodies: It's a Planet.

tl;dr: Pluto is a Dwarf Planet, which is a subclass of Planets, and That's OK.

P.S.: having said all that: "plutoid", the term astronomers coined in 2008 for bodies like this as a compromise, is a Really Cool Word I'd love to see ppl start using :> :> :>

You know how there's like some mathematician or something, who like did some useful stuff but is primarily known for overshadowing that work by going to great lengths trying to convince people to blow up the moon or something?

I wanna be like that but the hill I'm dying on is that the moon should be considered a planet

[tiedsh0es]

feels familiar

[mochablogger]

Gang 🚨🗣️💥

[betta-phish]

photo dump 3 🚶

[ailurinae]

Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris are all planets for sure.

Likely some others as well, it's just hard to get good data on just how big and round they are.

Meh meh meh Pluto meh meh

Where is all the outrage for Ceres huh? It was discovered centuries before Pluto and was dubbed an asteroid at the time. It was only via this recategorization of Pluto that we were able to recognize Ceres is far bigger than an asteroid and deserving of the Dwarf Planet title.

What about Eris? Eris is a dwarf planet and bigger than Pluto. I havent heard a peep about how Eris should be considered a planet...

[poll-position]

Not including Star Trek or Star Wars ships, because they would definitely sweep...

Sorry for missing any ships! I used primarily the ones that I am personally familiar with!

[winguontheweb]

I'm on a roll with art today, and more planet stuff! This time the moons of Pluto's system!!

[maddzgt]

Dungeons and Dwarf Planets - The Movie

We seriously need a movie like this. Please, Alvaro 🙏

But I'm done with this now, yey!! While on vacation, I had some time to do a little artwork like this, hehe, so here we have the Dwarf Planets going against the Evil Moons xD

[archivesoftheapes]

Spot the apes! (open in new tab for proper clarity!)

Another Night At The Warp Core Cafe by Jeff Carlisle

[disneyboot]

[solarballorama]

WHOOOA CHAPTER 4 START! That two week break did wonders, I'm excited to be back on the grind!!

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[planetaryalphabet]

It’s seems ironic that as we got a better view of Pluto, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet (August 24, 2006) by the International Astronomical Union.

[tiedsh0es]

ceres....

I find it interesting... how there is reason (at least in my mind) to why Ceres acts the way he does...

His main thing is throwing things at people, but listen!! He's first introduced in an episode where Mars and Earth playing are dodgeball. He also happens to throw Mars the exact asteroid he's looking for back. He's kind of just playing with them.

I mean besides that one iteration the asteroids he throws at the moons are TIIINYYY those aren't hurting anyone. I don't think he's intending to.

He also looks very surprised to have three moons facing him 😭😭like guys he's just a little awkward doesn't know how to talk to people but he's not intentionally trying to harm people. (ALSO!! He's always hiding from people he's shy ok...)

Maybe this is obvious to people but theres a loud side of the fandom that just makes him an antagonist and its SOO BORINGG!! hes so interesting, look at him pay attention.