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twurbster OP t1_j570kg1 wrote

Reply to comment by GiraffeWithATophat in Will Pluto ever be a planet? by twurbster

So it’s really just a cool controversial asteroid?

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Dont____Panic t1_j5756gj wrote

They’ve created a class of object called a minor planet. It’s large enough to pull itself into a sphere, but it has an odd orbit, and hasn’t cleared its local area.

It is, however, quite different from an asteroid like Vesta which are oblong and in a “belt” of other objects.

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twurbster OP t1_j575izj wrote

Thank you. It’s starting to make sense, this question was a lot deeper than I thought. Is minor the same as dwarf?

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