• Question: do u think pluto should be classed as a plant?

    Asked by funkymonkey to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by howbenek1, jess4coop, lol4eva.
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      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Well, it definitely isn’t a plant…

      Pluto is more similar to other dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake) which have been discovered fairly recently, than it is to the other planets. So if you think Pluto should be a planet, then you should really make those other 4 planets as well, which would mean we had 13 planets, and that would be unlucky!

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I don’t think Pluto should be a classed as a plant or a planet! Even though it does mess up our rhymes to remember the order of the planets… And I always kind of like pluto.

      But it would be nice if more people knew about dwarf planets, because they’re really cool too, then Pluto could be the best out of all the dwarf planets.

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