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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
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Stern said he believes that when New Horizons passes Pluto and the pictures are sent back, everyone who looks at those pictures will agree that Pluto should have retained full planet status. He said he thinks they’ll say, “Wow, what was all the controversy about? That’s obviously a planet.”
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There are 7 moons larger than Pluto in our Solar System(some are twice the size), I have no problem calling it a dwarf. And I have a hard time believing any pics that come back from Pluto would look anymore like a planet than Ganymede, Titan or our own moon.
Pluto and it's companions are just a few small moons that managed to escape the gravity of the gas giants a few billion years ago....good for them!