You can vote all you want to reinstate it, but unless you’re a part of the International Astronomical Union, that’s not how it works. THANK GOD.
In 1930 an small, oddball, rocky object was discovered in the outer solar system. We named the object Pluto, and called it the ninth planet. Sadly, that was a mistake.
This fuzzy blur of a thing is the best image we have of Pluto.
NASA, ESA and M. Buie / en.wikipedia.org
Thankfully, the lovely people at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) fixed this in 2006 when they decreed that Pluto was no longer a planet, and all was right with the world again.
Now some overly sentimental people are trying to ruin everything again by claiming Pluto should be back among the planets. So let's look at the evidence.
Pluto might not even be the ninth biggest object to orbit the sun – dwarf planet Eris is basically Pluto's twin.
A twin that Pluto somehow conveniently "forgot" about until 2005. I don't see anyone campaigning to make Eris a planet, least of all Pluto.
ESO/L. Calçada
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