Pluto is hot shit.
They say "Pluto's not a planet," Do you think that Pluto gives a shit?
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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That stops us in our tracks
Came here to make sure that was posted, LOL
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The problem with recognizing Pluto is that Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, Orcus, and perhaps also Salacia also should probably be included, and that makes for a nightmare of a mnemonic. As we all know, classification is decided on mnemonic plausibility.
My Very Educated Mother's Cousin Just Served Us Nine Outstanding Pizzas - (Somehow,) Her Quiche Might Get Officially Surpassed
Now, you only have to remember that Makemake and Orcus are in the Kuiper belt (past Neptune's orbit), and that maybe that Salacia is optional, and you can puzzle out the two repeated letters.
I spent too long on this.
...where's eris?..
"Educated"
We eliminated Earth by accident.
Of course we didn't. The International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board would have reported that...
Shit.
Not too much, what's eris you?
Yeah, there never was an option to keep 9 planets. It was either 8, all of which are already familiar, or many many more. And they wouldn't all be added neatly at the end either. Removing Pluto was the sensible choice.
Possibly over 100.
What's the problem with having many many planets in our solar system? You don't have to remember them all.
We also have many many stars in our galaxy. We don't have to know their names for them to still be stars.
You don't ever see people calling for Ceres to be proclaimed planet, all they care about is Pluto.
I think Pluto having been widely regarded as a planet before and having a visible heart shape on it's surface is an easier sell. I say they are both planets.
What’s the problem with having many many planets in our solar system?
You also can't find a good problem with this, can you?
I say they are both planets.
Cool. Can you name all planets in the Solar System, in the correct order?
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It’s only a problem when you reach a certain level of astronomical knowledge. 99% of us don’t and won’t give a shit and think the people who decided Pluto’s no longer a planet are simply assholes.
All adults know what a “grandfather clause” is and are capable of applying that to Pluto.
Pluto is and will always be Hot Shit.
Pluto is and will always be Hot Shit.
Actually, it's very cold on Pluto. Which makes Pluto cooler than Fonzie
Technically, you don't know Fonzie's temperature. And before you go and say "human temperature," the Fonz is a fictional character, so all bets are off.
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Yet Mercury is in the same category as Jupiter...as though they are similar in any way. "Planet" is one of the few times science has decided to change something for the sole purpose of keeping the Earth important in its classification. I suppose we could not have 15 or 20 or 40 planets because that would be confusing...yet we have almost 1000 moons. It is ONLY because it is the Earth's classification...no other reason. It doesn't make anything easier or less confusing.
They could have easily made mercury, pluto, and a dozen others dwarf planets, Venus Earth and Mars terrestrial planets and the others gas planets... but that would demote Earth.
Weird left over geocentrism remaining in science like it's the 1300s.
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Pluto and the others are planets even without including them all in the mnemonic. The mnemonic is for the first 9 planets, just like you only remember the first few digits of pi.
Pluto was not the first 9th planet. Then again we were up to 13(?) at one point.
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Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter.
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“Pluto is not a planet”
“What is it then?”
“It’s a dwarf planet”
“A dwarf what?”
“Planet”
“So it’s a planet”
If we include Pluto, we will have 14 planets in our solar system, and I'm okay with that.
In order of proximity to the sun, we have Ceres, Pluto, Huema, MakeMake, and Eris.
Granted, there's currently only 5 officially recognized, and the IAU says there may be more than 100 objects in our solar system that qualify that are yet to be discovered.
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The meme does get at an important point though -
Our classifications of things have no impact on the things themselves. They are descriptive, not prescriptive. We create the category “planet” as a useful tool for referring to certain categories of astronomical objects. These objects would exist whether we had words for them are not.
There are patterns in what the word “planet” describes that would also be shared, whether all of those things were called “planets” are not, but the words themselves are just useful shorthands depending on the context that we use them in. The map is not the territory; the referent is not the reference.
(This is also about sex/gender.)
people in the year 400 million when pluto explodes: this meme aged like milk
If milk still spoils in year 400m I’m out
It was reclassified, not decommissioned.
The good thing about Pluto is it's a planet whether you believe in it or not.
What are your thoughts on Ceres?
There's not clearing your orbit, and then there's whatever Ceres is doing.
Typical lazy Beltalowda.
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I mean, can you imagine if it changed?
Is this for people identifying as planets but are not read as such?
Still a sailor guardian bitches!
Pluto is Chiron's moon
I still classify you as a planet, Pluto. So did the old ones.
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