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by vba616 1615 days ago
Some say that the reason for demoting Pluto was to avoid admitting Eris to the club of planets while pretending to be consistent. The "clearing your orbit" thing was more of a cover story.

It's possible that Eris took it as a snub. There certainly seems to be a lot of chaos recently.

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I’m Eris, and there is no stranger orbit than this, ‘cuz we Bend the rules where I’m at in the Scattered Disc I’ve been hearing some confusion in the past: Pluto may be bigger, but I got more mass