nasa-official:

rykemasters:

nasa-official:

I love Pluto as much as anyone, and its *okay* that she’s a dwarf planet. Pluto has other cute friends out in her part of the woods

She just isn’t in the same plane of orbit as the other planets. Look at that orbit, its cray:

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We can accept Pluto as she is, we don’t need to push her into a mold.  Insisting that Pluto is a planet isn’t accepting her as her true self.  She is a small, wild, free little dwarf planet and I love her

This actually makes me wonder why all the other planets in our system are in orbits on the same plane (or close enough) while Pluto isn’t. Is there some aspect of gravity that tends to even out orbital planes on the very long term or something?

conservation of angular momentum!