Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one
DivineDev@piefed.social 1 day agoHow many planets have ever completed an orbit around the sun: 8, since Pluto has such a long orbital period that in it’s entire time as a planet it did not even finish a single one.
Pluto has completed millions of orbits around the sun.
At the time of the IAUs release of the definition of a planet, Neptune had not completed an orbit since its discovery, and yet they still called it a planet. Clearly, this weird and arbitrary statement that you have put forth did not matter.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Neptune has completed one though. So Pluto is the only planet to officially not complete an orbit while it was called a planet. It doesn’t affect whether it’s a planet or not, it’s just an interesting quiz question.
DivineDev@piefed.social 1 day ago
I think it was sufficiently clear to just be a fun fact, not the implication that pluto did not complete orbits around the sun before it was discovered or whatever