Am afraid it’s not even the king. Eris is both substantially more massive and further away. In fact, it’s the discovery of Eris that led to the realisation that Pluto shouldn’t be considered a planet at all.
Why the fuck we didn’t just deem Eris into planethood I’ll never understand. Both it and Pluto are arguably more similar to Terra than the gas giants are.
I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we’d have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.
On the upside pluto being classified as a dwarf planet is what of what got ceres promoted out of asteroid and into dwarf planet, and now its turning out to be super interesting with potential subsurface ice and possibly being the core remnant of a failed planet that was torn apart by jupiter before it could fully form.
Pluto is the king of the dwarf planets. Or the ass end of the major planets.
Am afraid it’s not even the king. Eris is both substantially more massive and further away. In fact, it’s the discovery of Eris that led to the realisation that Pluto shouldn’t be considered a planet at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)
Why the fuck we didn’t just deem Eris into planethood I’ll never understand. Both it and Pluto are arguably more similar to Terra than the gas giants are.
I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we’d have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.
I for one welcome all these Plutoid planets to the planet family.
What’s the downside, we have to make a new mnemonic? Or add a verse to the Blue’s Clues Planet Song? I think we’re capable.
On the upside pluto being classified as a dwarf planet is what of what got ceres promoted out of asteroid and into dwarf planet, and now its turning out to be super interesting with potential subsurface ice and possibly being the core remnant of a failed planet that was torn apart by jupiter before it could fully form.
Eris may be more massive, but Pluto is larger.
Your mom is too, yet we don’t call her a planet either.
She’ll clear her own orbit eventually! You’ll see!
Appropriately named huh