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36
17
Hell yeah! Pluto rocks! No! Pluto is a dump!
Debate Score:53
Arguments:25
Total Votes:62
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 Hell yeah! Pluto rocks! (15)
 
 No! Pluto is a dump! (10)

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Is Pluto a Planet Or Not?

Pluto

Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!

Side Score: 36
VS.

No! Pluto is a dump!

Side Score: 17

It has a core, a surface, and layers like any other planet. In fact it's not like one of those poser planets like jupiter that don't have a solid surface so hell yea it's a planet.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
3 points

it was always known as a planet and will still be known as a planet just a small one

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
3 points

It doesn't really matter if Pluto was a part of another planet or was just an asteroid or some crap like that, it led to the creation of an orbital Planet. Stay where you are.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!

Pluto is a planet and also a dog I like that's Gofy's.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
2 points

Well, it's referred to as a dwarf planet. Doesn't that still make it a planet of some sort since it's in its name? Or should they just refer to it as a small resemblance of a planet?

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
4 points

Well, I guess we have found several others in the same orbit that are the same size or ever bigger... But why did it take this long? I'm suspicious!

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
3 points

It's all a conspiracy! LOL

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
2 points

Heck yes! Pluto is a planet. Just cause someone wanted to change the definition of what a planet is doesn't make it right.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
1 point

I'm only saying this, because I refuse to believe that the last piece of my childhood is a lie. Pluto is still a planet in my eyes.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!

According to NASHOLES, Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet, yet the key word is planet, so it is still a planet of some sort.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
1 point

Pluto has a planet core and four moons. Along with that Pluto has a atmosphere and a magnetic feald. Thin but it dose.

My friend uses this; a planet has to move objects away from its orbit. Pluto dosen't so its not a planet.

My counter, if a rock bigger than earth comes along and moves US then are we not a planet?

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
0 points

I'll have to say yes, because to be honest, I'd feel bad leaving it out. XD

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
2 points

Well, it seems to me that since several other bodies of similar or even larger size, have been discovered in the Kuiper Belt, we have to say they're all planets... or none of them are.... sorry Pluto, it's just not fair to the other guys.

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!
3 points

In addition to its relatively minuscule size, it does not dominate its orbit. It has failed to "clear the neighborhood"- with a scattering power only 1.95 × 10−8 that of Earth

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!
2 points

Pluto does not have a clear orbit, its not round, and its smaller than are moon.

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!
2 points

Pluto was demoted from planetary status due to a number of prominent factors. The first was that, like Ceres it was surrounded by many objects of similar size and composition. Ceres was first thought to be a planet because of its spherical shape but later on it was labelled a dwarf planet due to its size, and the surrounding bodies were called asteroids.

Secondly Pluto’s orbit is substantially different from those of the other planets. It is inclined and varies from being around 49AU to 30AU from the sun. It is also very small having a radius of 1180km, smaller then our moon. Charon, Pluto’s moon, has a radius of around 600km. Which initiated another debate over whether or not it should be called a binary planetary system. Astronomers soon discovered many other objects around Pluto such as Makemake and Sedna which were similar in size to that of Pluto. Then in early 2005 Eris was discovered and it was larger than Pluto. This led to the revaluation of the definition of ‘planet’ in 2006 by the IAU. The traditional definition of a planet (a celestial body moving around a star) was changed, and for an object to be classified as a planet it had to;

Be in orbit around the Sun,

Have sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium

Have had "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.

If an object was found but only met the first two points it would be classified as a dwarf planet. Pluto, Eris and the other asteroids are now considered part of the Kuiper belt.

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!

plutos moon is half the size of pluto ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!
Oiden(395) Disputed
1 point

If a rock half the size of Earth came into orbit of us and became another moon then we are not a planet. That is what you are saying.

Just because its gravity caught somthing big dosen't mean that its not a planet.

Side: Hell yeah! Pluto rocks!
1 point

It used to be a planet but than later on it was considered as a meteoroid as it was too small to be considered a planet.

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!
1 point

It used to be a planet but than later on it was considered as a meteoroid as it was too small to be considered a planet.

Actually a dwarf planet

Side: No! Pluto is a dump!