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- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 3 weeks ago:
Because planets only exist in the solar system.
They attempted to create a definition for an “exoplanet” but that never passed, so aggregations of matter orbiting stars outside the solar system have no official name.
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 3 weeks ago:
The IAU resolution (pdf) that they voted on does not include what comes after “More generally”. The page that you link to is apparently the source and is not official.
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 3 weeks ago:
How many planets are in orbit around the sun? 8
How many planets are in the entire universe? 8, because a planet has to orbit the sun.