>>12136626The thing I don't get though is that in the technical divisions between planet and dwarf planet, the one thing Pluto and Eris fail in that make them d.planets are things that Neptune and even Earth fail to pass. Pluto is a dwarf planet because it has not yet cleared its orbit of all foreign bodies (Neptune). Likewise, Neptune hasn't yet cleared its orbit of all foreign bodies (Pluto).
I understand the motivation behind wanting to separate them, but the actual rules they announced to divide them seem to have failed in their task from day 1. Either Pluto is a planet because Neptune is a planet, or both aren't planets.
