[Ghostavo]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,27016.0.html

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Carl


Sedna is not a planet, but Pluto is. Pluto is the lower limit.

I think if Pluto was discovered today, it wouldn't have be counted as one......

[Nico]

I think they decided to count Pluto as a planet coz it had a satellite, iirc. Almost as big as Pluto itself, the satellite, but heh.

[Grey Wolf]

The reason Pluto is still considered a planet is that it would take too much effort to reclassify it as a planetoid and correct the populace.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
Pick up astronomy, the year in review.  and flip i agree, there is something else out there.  i launched a certain person who wanted to make fs3 into space, and his ego is now affecting the grav fields in our solar system.....sorry about that.

We forgive you.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
The reason Pluto is still considered a planet is that it would take too much effort to reclassify it as a planetoid and correct the populace.

Actually, there's also the bit about it's got enough gravity to round itself out and has an independant orbit of the sun.