I always feel weird when I read someone describing our system as 8 planets, even though I accept Pluto is too small. Then again if it's a dwarf planet, it's still a planet. No one stopped counting Jupiter or Saturn as planets coz they're giant planets and not normal planets. Then again we would have to count Eris too as a planet which would make it a 10 planet system which is even weirder. Then again 9 is a nicer number than 8, ugh. Let's say a moon shot off from it's planet and is now orbiting the sun solo, that'd make it a planet in my book coz it's big and round and juicy. Asteroids could be bigger but they're not round! Good sirs and fine ladies, kanpai for drunken philosophy.
tthere are more, to accept pluto you would have to accept the folowing ones Ceres Haumea Makemake Eris so our solar system has 13 planets, bring out tin foiled hats, let's talk about the end of the world in friday the 13th
I think there is another one past pluto and they expect to find more. That's part of why it was removed from the official planet list, because they expected the list to keep growing if they didn't redefine what an 'offical planet' is to exclude the smaller things.
Out of topic, but can the Fibonacci sequence accurately calculate the fixed disposition of our solar system's supposed to be planetary bodies? After reading so much Chinese novels, 9 (10) became something divine for me as well. 8 remains to remind me of King Solomon with 6 Star of David. 8 and 6 being extremely potent formulas to magic in history. You... you fiend! Even planet eaters don't waste their planets. So it would either be an 8 or 13. Hmm... 8 appeases my symmetrical aesthetics but 13 also excites me, because of its bearing significance in culture.
What about Nibiru What if magic exists and they ruined it's system coz it relied on celestial bodies and numerology? How careless!
Scientist have speculated that there may be as much as 100 other pluto sized or bigger objects in the kuiper belt that have yet to be discovered, so if we are to continue to treat pluto and other dwarf planets as the same as planets, we could potentially have 100+ planets in the solar system
What's wrong with having 100+ planets in our solar system anyways? "So there are 100+ planets in this solar system, but we only count 8 as official, the rest are not planet because we don't want 100+ planets."
If this was remotely true, then that would suck! No wonder there ain't no magic and shit. We fuck'en erased the formula. It's all 1 + ? now. *looks at you with questioning eyes*
I also think its strange. I mean some of jupiters moons are bigger than pluto and maybe some planets ( i forget for sure and am too lazy to google) and they are still considered moons
Whats wrong with that? Space is considered infinite so even if they do try to categorize some as planets and others as not, we still have an infinite number of areas to search, discover, and categorize