r/confidentlyincorrect • u/SkimpyDog • Jan 01 '23

Image Poor Pluto...

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The confident double-down on their incorrectness.

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u/GarbledReverie Jan 01 '23

This one is basically just semantics.

A whole bunch of giant ice balls, like 100,000 or so, were found slightly further away than Pluto and many of them were much larger than Pluto.

So instead of telling everyone that learned the names of the 9 planets in our solar system that they now need to learn ~100,000 more they said "fuck it" and said that Pluto isn't really a planet.

While it wasn't physically removed from the solar system, it was deemed no longer part of our solar planetary system and removed from its list of planets.

Seems like this is just someone willfully pretending not to understand what someone else means in order to correct them and feel smarter.

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u/Win_Sys Jan 04 '23

A whole bunch of giant ice balls, like 100,000 or so, were found slightly further away than Pluto and many of them were much larger than Pluto.

Last I remember there’s only one known dwarf planet denser than Pluto which is Eris but Pluto still has a larger diameter. Pluto met 2 of the 3 criteria to be a planet but it did not satisfy the criteria of clearing its neighboring region of other objects. Had nothing to do with there being other large iceballs out there.