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Message: <blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 3020423" data-attributes="member: 39815">It's going to be ridiculous if this new proposal passes. So now we'll have a new planet between Mars and Jupiter? And much worse, as more and more large Kuiper Belt objects are discovered, textbooks will be outdated before they're published. It'll be impossible to keep up. A year or two from now, we could be looking at a solar system with dozens of "planets", and more on the way.Pluto needs to get dropped from the roster. Other than history, pretty soon we'll see there's nothing that distinct about it compared to dozens, or hundreds, or possibly thousands of other rocky ice balls out beyond Neptune. At least with the other 8, we can expect to keep the number of planets stable.</blockquote>