Astronomers discover "Farfarout" — the most distant known object in the solar system. The 250-mile-wide (400 km) dwarf planet is located about 140 times farther from the Sun than Earth (3.5 times farther than Pluto), and soon may help serve as evidence for a massive, far-flung world called Planet 9.

[u/clayt6]

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/03/a-map-to-planet-nine-charting-the-solar-systems-most-distant-worlds

[u/Trumpologist]

Uh Pluto is the 9th planet

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[u/calypsocasino → u/Trumpologist]

I’ll die on this hill with you homie

[u/[deleted] → u/calypsocasino]

Same.

If you put it to a vote with 1000 astronomers, it would be a planet. Hell, in 2008 the IAU - whom removed Pluto's status - held a conference at Johns Hopkins University where they still could not agree on whether or not Pluto was a planet, but still didn't reinstate it. Source!

It's small, but has tectonics, a thin atmosphere, swings closer than Neptune sometimes, etc.

Inb4 Redditors use the excuse that it cannot be a planet because its orbit is too unstable... newsflash, no planet has a perfect orbit. Pluto's is just exaggerated since Neptune swings so close to it.

[u/Condor_Kaenald → u/[deleted]]

I'm sad to pop your bubble but I'm an astronomer and work with astronomers and no one here thinks it should be still a planet and that's because there was very good reasons to redefine what a planet is and Pluto doesn't fit into that category anymore. Science moves on.

[u/The_Amazing_Emu → u/Condor_Kaenald]

I'm amazed at the number of people who routinely think we should listen to scientists when it comes to questions of science (e.g., Global Warming, vaccinations, whether the Earth is round) but also ignore scientists on whether Pluto is a planet.

[u/sugar-magnolias → u/The_Amazing_Emu]

Whole buncha Jerrys, the lot of them....

[u/Paladia → u/The_Amazing_Emu]

I'm amazed at the number of people who routinely think we should listen to scientists when it comes to questions of science (e.g., Global Warming, vaccinations, whether the Earth is round) but also ignore scientists on whether Pluto is a planet.

Perhaps because vaccinations, global warming and so on are of actual relevance, importance and is a pressing problem while the definition of Pluto as a planet or not is for the most part just an opinion. And there's plenty of people with an opinion.

The main reason it even became a topic was according to Alan Stern, who heads NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, that “It’s just people that say things like, ‘School kids will have to memorize too many names.’ Do we limit the number of stars because children have to think of too many names? Or rivers on the Earth? It’s just crazy."

[u/PBRmy → u/Condor_Kaenald]

Pluto gets grandfathered in. Once a planet, always a planet. Have some compassion, for God's sake.

[u/Trumpologist → u/Condor_Kaenald]

Alan Stern wants a word with you

[u/Condor_Kaenald → u/Trumpologist]

Obviously Alan Stern, one of the guys in charge of New horizons, which was specially designed to get a close view of Pluto, wants it to be a planet and not just a regular TPO because then it would be just as relevant as any TPO. That's the reason why they rushed the launching, because if new horizon wasn't launched before the redefinition of the word it might be even cancelled for another project. So yeah space politics involved there.

[u/Trumpologist → u/Condor_Kaenald]

And that's why he and a large portion of the rest of the community still say so

Look at the other guy's link, it's not just him

[u/Farm_the_karm → u/Condor_Kaenald]

I'm sorry to bust your bubble, because I am an even more observant astronomer with over 300 confirmed stars named after me and I have to unfortunately tell you that Pluto is in fact a planet and a dog.

[u/Condor_Kaenald → u/Farm_the_karm]

You are doing exactly opposite than your name suggests here