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Originally Posted by HarryT
The term "dwarf planet" has now been adopted by the IAU for non-satellite objects which are massive enough to have become spherical, but not massive enough to have cleared other objects out of their vicinity. Dwarf planets include the Kuiper Belt objects Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake, plus of course Ceres. It's estimated that there may well be as many as 200 dwarf planets in the solar system.
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Harry, don't waste your time. This woman's entire life revolves around an obsession with calling Pluto a planet. For years now, at any news item or blog entry that mentions Pluto no longer being a planet, she has shown up to give long rants about it. She literally started back to college for a degree in Astronomy just so that she can try to overturn the IAU's decision. It is very sad, really.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100...aqi=&aql=f&oq=
She is a well known running joke, as you can see in the comments in this one example (out of probably many similar mentions)
http://www.daemonsbooks.com/2010/12/...by-mike-brown/