what is it that separates the wheat from the chaff?
the planets from the dwarf planets?
and who defines such matters?
well, that would be the International Astronomical Union
or the IAU
(or the I and U)
there are 3 conditions
of which 2 are shared by both planets and dwarf planets
1. they both orbit around the sun
(as we orbit around each other)
2. they both have sufficient love...so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (heart) shape
(i may have fudged some details)
now the one distinction between the two
is that planets must
3. "clear the neighborhood" around their orbit
i.e. be gravitationally dominant such that there are no other nearby bodies of comparable size
and i write this application to the IAU today
so that we will no longer be dwarf planets
for nobody in this neighborhood
nor any neighborhood
could ever have a love as dominant
as how much we love each other <3
Aug 8, 2021
Aug 8, 2021 at 12:51 PM UTC
what is it that separates the wheat from the chaff?
the planets from the dwarf planets?
and who defines such matters?
well, that would be the International Astronomical Union
or the IAU
(or the I and U)
there are 3 conditions
of which 2 are shared by both planets and dwarf planets
1. they both orbit around the sun
(as we orbit around each other)
2. they both have sufficient love...so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (heart) shape
(i may have fudged some details)
now the one distinction between the two
is that planets must
3. "clear the neighborhood" around their orbit
i.e. be gravitationally dominant such that there are no other nearby bodies of comparable size
and i write this application to the IAU today
so that we will no longer be dwarf planets
for nobody in this neighborhood
nor any neighborhood
could ever have a love as dominant
as how much we love each other <3
we have cleared the neighborhood
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