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Can someone explain the bit about nomenclature?
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Can someone explain the bit about nomenclature?
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>Listen, either Pluto is not a planet, or a ton of other Kuiper Belt objects are planets.

>But, did they really have to call something that wasn't a Dwarf or a Planet a Dwarf Planet?
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Kuiper Belt planets and Oort Cloud planets.
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This image is flawed, Niburu isn't on it.
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The last qualification in the IAU definition is "a body must clear it's orbit". However this isn't precisely defined which some people call flawed.
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