Subj : Re: Mothers Day
To   : Vorlon
From : Adept
Date : Tue May 16 2023 10:59 am

 Vo> Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto!
 Vo> 
 Vo> (Pluto has been banished though)...

I like to think of it as Pluto getting more interesting, since Charon is _also_ a minor planet, since the center of gravity between Pluto and Charon is _between_ them. All the other planets have moons, since the center of gravity is in the larger body.

That said, can't really include Pluto in the list without also including Charon, Ceres, Orcus, Sedna, Quaoar, Gonggong, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris, and I'll admit that, outside of Ceres, Charon, Sedna, I'm not sure I'd be able to name them if asked. Or tell you which of those are barely qualifying under the, "rounded by gravity" rule.

But their existence is still pretty cool, for all the variety of things in the solar system. And that their existence is _why_ some people decided Pluto couldn't be a planet. But instead of making all those other things planets, they did the "dwarf planet" thing, which still just seems odd to me as a dividing line.

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