William Reardon’s Blog

Okay, so Pluto is no longer a planet. The reason why is

The scientists agreed that to be called a planet, a celestial body must be in orbit around a star while not itself being a star.

It also must be large enough in mass for its own gravity to pull it into a nearly spherical shape and have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

Pluto was disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s.

Okay, so Pluto is not a planet because it hasn’t cleared its orbit of Neptune. I get that.

What I don’t get is, if that’s the criteria, and Neptune hasn’t cleared Pluto of its orbit, why is Neptune still a planet?

Something else I wonder: If I had never lived with Neb & Misa, would I have liked this video as much? (Hat tip to Jeremy.)

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