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I don't know if any of you guys care but Pluto hasn't been classed as a planet since 2006, I've been looking into why recently and I found out that a planet is described as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around a sun/star (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium shape, and © has cleared its own orbit of other bodies. Apparently it fails © because it has things of similar mass in its orbit and is now only classed as a dwarf planet. But Earth (you know that thing we live on that is more than 6000 years old.... some people will get what I'm saying there) also has things in its orbit and they don't call it a dwarf planet and so does Uranus, there is now much discussion about whether or not it should be reclassified as a planet and whether we should redefine what actually classifies things as a planet. Instead of there being 9 planets like we all used to think, there are now only 8 planets and 4 dwarf planets that orbit our sun, but isn't saying "its not a planet its a dwarf planet" just like saying "its not a dog its a poodle". Various sites say various things so this information may not be 100% accurate, if this interests you then google it. Personally i believe we should just say that there are actually 12 planets that orbit the sun regardless of some only having "dwarf" status. What do you think? I'll make a poll just for the sake of it. (thats the most off topic thing i could think of right now that interests me)
