The Bookwyrm
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I have a very important question.
Would you call a dwarf planet a type of planet and could be shortened to a planet? As in, it is a planet, just a different subset. Like fantasy is a genre (subset) of fiction.
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...No, not quite. More like planets and dwarf planets are both subsets of a higher classification that is...just...things that go around stars and are sometimes ejected from them that aren't big enough to be brown dwarfs.
If this is part of the "Pluto should be a planet!" argument, then I'm saying that Pluto shouldn't be a planet because then we'd have to make like fifteen other things (and maybe even a hundred; we don't know what's out there) planets.
Instead we should recognize that Pluto can be really cool even if it's not a planet.
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It's not part of that argument. I personally am not a fan of the classification (dwarf stars are still technically stars, right) but I accept it. My brother and I were just having an argument about whether or not I could call Pluto a planet. Also, the higher classification you're looking for is planetary-mass objects I believe.
Thank you.
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My answer (though I don’t have a ton of knowledge on the subject) would be that dwarf planets have more in common with asteroids than with regular planets. The asteroids have the asteroid belt, while the dwarf planets have the Kuiper Belt. It’s more complicated than that, but that’s where my knowledge ends.
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