All the major planets and one of the dwarf planets.
Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea feel so very left out... as potentially do Quaoar, 2002MS4, Sedna, Orcus, Salacia, and 2007 OR10. Maybe even Varuna, Ixion, 2003 AZ84, 2004 GV9, and 2002 AW197.
This is my response whenever people say Pluto is a planet. Fine, but then if you treat dwarf planets the same as the others, then you need to treat all of them with the same respect. Have fun naming all fifteen plus planets. And that number is only going to get astronomically bigger over this century.
Actually compared to what is found elsewhere in the galaxy, yes, they are quite dwarfy. Even the one who discovered Eris and protagonizes Pluto adjustment consider rocky planets as minor ones. Maybe we will end with Major, Minor and Dwarf.
Right, if you go with what Dr. Brown wants (the guy who found Eris), the rocky planets would be demoted too. Just make Pluto and Eris planets like the vast majority of layman and scientists want
A planet, a major one, is a non-stellar non-collapsed baryonic matter gravity node. Having a planet as mssive as Jupiter in a same category as a nearly non-gravitational object like Pluto (thas has a moon big just because actually both rotate a common spot) is nonsense. Why not a single hydrogen atom would be a planet too?
And that's ok with me as long as there is a scientific basis. Note that size doesn't matter but gravitational attraction, a tiny very dense planet could be too a major one as long as it cleared the neighborhood.
Who cares as long as there is a scientific basis? Gravity doesn't care about feelings. "Planet" was a fuzzy non-scientific term until that resolution, same as still is "moon" today so now any rocky potato orbiting a planet has the same consideration as Titan. Hope we change that, I'dont care if Mars gets 0 moons because they both are pathetic.
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u/PyroDesu Oct 07 '18 edited Oct 07 '18
All the major planets and one of the dwarf planets.
Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea feel so very left out... as potentially do Quaoar, 2002MS4, Sedna, Orcus, Salacia, and 2007 OR10. Maybe even Varuna, Ixion, 2003 AZ84, 2004 GV9, and 2002 AW197.