Damn Plutons! More planets offically added to solar system

[Blitz Ace]

Size directly has nothing to do with it (Although your "800km wide" comment is about one third of its actual diameter); to be a planet a body must be large enough to be rendered spherical by gravitational effects, and not so large as to cause fusion to occur, among other criteria.

whoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)

so your saying if its smaller than our moon its to small to be a planet?

... well, IMO yeh. i reckon they should have some size minimum, (not just talk about whether it can keep itself in a spherical shape), and stop worrying about the small things far away in our solar system which no ordinary person will probably ever know or care about. they can classify them as plutons or dwarfs or whatever, but not planets.

or they could just leave it as it is. as aisle_s said, most people will prob only ever remember the original 9 planets.

While they're adding new planets to the solar system, why don't they change the name of Uranus, to stop that stupid joke once and for all?

good point, they should