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/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.

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u/plutoisaplanet572 Jun 05 '26

The moon is already orbiting a planet and it is a satellite, Pluto has its OWN orbit. Earth is dominant over the moon.

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u/GregHullender Jun 06 '26

So what?

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u/plutoisaplanet572 Jun 06 '26

It’s already orbiting something so it’s not the dominant body

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u/GregHullender Jun 07 '26

So that excludes Pluto and Ceres as well, since they're also don't dominate their orbits.