(October 30, 2023 at 10:23 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:(October 30, 2023 at 10:13 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Pluto is a large Keiper Belt object. Incomplete information about the solar system made it possible for people to claim it was a planet.
Proposed names for other such objects when found:
DOC
DOPEY
SNEEZY
SLEEPY
HAPPY
GRUMPY
BASHFUL
Interesting.
The mistake stemmed from assuming that anything large enough and in orbit around the Sun would be a planet. If those two were the only criteria, sure. But when we separated the sheep from the goats Pluto became the flagship for a more accurately defined set of celestial bodies.