I’m just mad we’re losing out on “Planet X”. When I was a kid Pluto was a planet so the new one was X (10) and it was cool. Now this new planet is just going to be planet 9 again… totally lame.
Definitely seems unfair to call it a planet when there's a number of Kuiper belt objects that are larger[1](?) or pretty much the same size.
[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Pluto-so-different-from-the-oth...
[1] https://www.universetoday.com/118118/it-looks-like-these-are...
Pluto is an impressive planetary system with a bunch of Moons and active geology. I’m gonna call it a planet.
Also kind of funny, but this guy who is obsessed with finding “Planet 9” (which doesn’t seem to exist) is also the one who tried and succeeded at demoting Pluto.
There was a real concern that we were going to find thousands of Pluto sized objects in the kuiper belt, and that when we observed them up close they were just going to look like big comets. Instead it turns out there are only a handful and they are fascinating worlds with many similarities to other planets.
But I also enjoyed reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert.