SPACE.com — ‘Planet’ No Longer a Scientific Word, Discoverer Says
So now they have found a significantly large body in the Kuiper Belt ( the swarm of objects way beyond Neptune). It's larger than Pluto. So it should be a planet.
So we have a tenth planet.
But no.
Going by that, there are 13 more such bodies. So if we call this one the 10th planet, then we infact end up with 23.
So we need to demote Pluto from planethood to avoid this situation, since no scientific definition of Planet will fit pluto but still toe out from encapsulating this new discovery.
There's a solution proposed. Let not "planet" be a scientific word.
Let it be a social/cultural world.
So planet by this definition means any of the big chunks of mass orbiting the sun which we feel close to.
So Pluto stays. And the "tenth" one need not be termed a planet.
Or maybe we can call it the tenth planet, but we need not include the 13 others which are already discovered, or the tens more that are yet to be discovered.
SPACE.com -- 'Planet' No Longer a Scientific Word, Discoverer Says
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