If you want to include all the dwarf planets then we’ve got more than 9. Pluto was only the latest object to be called a planet and reclassified. No one complains about the others.
I really don’t get why that would be a problem. Personally, I would be delighted if we had more than 9 planets. “Oh no! We can’t have Pluto be a planet cuz then we’d have 5-10 more bodies that we’d have to call a planet too!” So what? Give me 15 planets; hell give me 50, that sounds so much cooler than reducing the number of bodies in the solar system people care about by 1.
Just because you only care about them because they’re not called planets doesn’t mean nobody else does. You are allowed to enjoy anything you want. Go learn about all the dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and everything else!
Planet is a useful term to describe a particular thing. We could keep adding more things to the list, but then it becomes less useful. We have multiple words for different things for a reason. A fruit isn’t a vegetable just because they both grow on plants, for example.
Kinda silly when ‘dwarf planet’ has planet still in the name.
Just change the name. Can’t be Pluto, but maybe Gimli will work.
Do we name asteroids after hobbits, then?
Give it a thousand years, then it’s classical mythology. That’s free game. That’s where we got Mars, Saturn, Jupiter etc.
No, but we’ve come close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2675_Tolkien
If you want to include all the dwarf planets then we’ve got more than 9. Pluto was only the latest object to be called a planet and reclassified. No one complains about the others.
I really don’t get why that would be a problem. Personally, I would be delighted if we had more than 9 planets. “Oh no! We can’t have Pluto be a planet cuz then we’d have 5-10 more bodies that we’d have to call a planet too!” So what? Give me 15 planets; hell give me 50, that sounds so much cooler than reducing the number of bodies in the solar system people care about by 1.
Just because you only care about them because they’re not called planets doesn’t mean nobody else does. You are allowed to enjoy anything you want. Go learn about all the dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and everything else!
Planet is a useful term to describe a particular thing. We could keep adding more things to the list, but then it becomes less useful. We have multiple words for different things for a reason. A fruit isn’t a vegetable just because they both grow on plants, for example.
You’re right. We should call them planitos (or planitas if the dwarf planet is female)
Even sillier to get pissed on behalf of a giant space rock that doesn’t care what you call it.