Am afraid it’s not even the king. Eris is both substantially more massive and further away. In fact, it’s the discovery of Eris that led to the realisation that Pluto shouldn’t be considered a planet at all.
Why the fuck we didn’t just deem Eris into planethood I’ll never understand. Both it and Pluto are arguably more similar to Terra than the gas giants are.
I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we’d have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.
Pluto is the king of the dwarf planets. Or the ass end of the major planets.
Am afraid it’s not even the king. Eris is both substantially more massive and further away. In fact, it’s the discovery of Eris that led to the realisation that Pluto shouldn’t be considered a planet at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)
Eris may be more massive, but Pluto is larger.
Your mom is too, yet we don’t call her a planet either.
Why the fuck we didn’t just deem Eris into planethood I’ll never understand. Both it and Pluto are arguably more similar to Terra than the gas giants are.
I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we’d have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.