Revisiting Pluto’s planet status debate
Pluto failed to pass the third of three conditions to be considered a planet in the Solar System
The debate has raged since Pluto lost its status as a planet in August 2006. The meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) was expected to decide if Eres and possibly some other objects should be upgraded to planet status. Instead, in what is easily the most attention an IAU meeting has ever received from people that don’t use pocket protectors, they made the call to downgrade Pluto to that of a dwarf ...
