I urge you not to blindly accept the controversial IAU planet definition that demoted Pluto, a definition adopted by only four percent of the organization and immediately rejected by an equal number of professional astronomers who are even now working behind the scenes to get that definition overturned. Saying dwarf planets are not planets at all makes no sense. Using the alternate planet definition, which defines any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star as a planet, our solar system has 13, not 8 planets--5 dwarf planets and 8 classical planets.
I urge you not to blindly accept the controversial IAU planet definition that demoted Pluto, a definition adopted by only four percent of the organization and immediately rejected by an equal number of professional astronomers who are even now working behind the scenes to get that definition overturned. Saying dwarf planets are not planets at all makes no sense. Using the alternate planet definition, which defines any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star as a planet, our solar system has 13, not 8 planets--5 dwarf planets and 8 classical planets.
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