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by chriswarbo
1908 days ago
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It's hard to justify counting Pluto without counting Eris: - Eris is more massive than Pluto (1.6e22kg versus Pluto's 1.3e22kg) - Eris is only slightly smaller than Pluto, at 2326km diameter (more than your arbitrary 2000km cutoff) - The orbit of Eris crosses Pluto's, so it may be closer to the Sun part of the time https://solarstory.net/img/articles/big/orbit-of-eris.jpg |
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On reread that probably wasn't clear, since I still think of Pluto as a planet.