There's a LOT of dwarf planets we've found since Pluto is what happened, basically.
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Speak for yourself. I haven't forgotten Ceres.
I'll forget Pluto together with the 200+ other dwarf planets in our solar system, thank you very much.
I understand the rationale for demoting Pluto, and I don't disagree at all
It’s not even a demotion, it’s just reclassification. There’s no hierarchy of importance of solar system objects. People against a more accurate understanding of reality are dumb.
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What's more fun, demoting pluto or announcing the discovery of a new planet every week for a couple years?
I’ve always said those third graders have it too easy having to learn just 8 planets. Time to really put them in their place!
What if we demoted pluto every few weeks as a compromise
You're a monster.
Just need a bigger mnemonic
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If Emilia is a scientist at heart and heard that Pluto was reclassified because we found many more like it, she'd probably be fascinated. Mind blown, even, that we've found Sedna, Ceres, Makemake, a bunch of others I've forgotten the name of, and a few more that just have a number.
On the other hand, she was just introduced to the concept of things like interstellar travel and aliens, so "someone took away one of our planets" wouldn't have been all that far-fetched. (Especially since the dialogue in the post doesn't actually mention Pluto. Maybe she thought it was Venus.)
Granted, we found Ceres, christened it a planet, and demoted it to asteroid long before we found Pluto.
The real problem here is the nostalgia factor. A lot of people grew up having the planets ingrained into their brains with various mnemonics. Hard to say goodbye to “pizza”.
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There was no scenario where your precious mnemonics got preserved. If Pluto was still a planet, then Ceres would be too and it would fuck them all up.
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That's not where Ceres goes, and you missed Eris and a few others.
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Now I'm curious: How publicised was Pluto's discovery in 1930? Did the public care? Would Earhart likely have learnt about it before she vanished in 1937?
They were basically calling it the great American scientific discovery at the time. Which is probably why some people were so loath to accept the "demotion."
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