G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Never liked the name Pluto. I relate the name to Mickey's dog "Pluto"


Then maybe we could rename it Goofy, or Snoopy!


I
like the name for it to be "Kuiper" Best to realize if Pluto had been
found more recently,astronomers would call it a very large Kuiper belt
object and not a planet at all. To late Have to go now with "A
rose is a rose" I think a planets name gets tricky when the object is
so far from the Sun and has such an ecliptic orbit. Takes Pluto over
246 Earth years to circle the Sun Bert


The Earth is so much smaller than Jupiter and Saturn, I'm not sure it
should be called a planet either!

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