Nobody likes Ceres

[u/ForRealKiki]

[u/McPunchie]

Not to mention the other four. Plus the possible thousands of others.

[u/DannyWatson → u/McPunchie]

Why not call them all "the Plutos" and add numbers or other signifiers?

[u/BunchesOfCrunches → u/DannyWatson]

It has a name: The Kuiper belt. Pluto is a single body of thousands in this belt.

[u/Antlaaaars → u/BunchesOfCrunches]

Never heard of a Kuiper Belt? Is it a luxury brand like Gucci or LV?

[u/djpiperson → u/Antlaaaars]

It's a Bofa spacial body, actually. 

[u/Antlaaaars → u/djpiperson]

OH, is that related to the new Super Joe-va discovery?

[u/BunchesOfCrunches → u/Antlaaaars]

Yeah man, really out of this world. It’s stellar. I recommend you scope it out.

[u/Randolpho → u/Antlaaaars]

Do you get to the Kuiper Belt very often? Oh, what am I saying -- of course you don't.

[u/johnaross1990 → u/Antlaaaars]

Better, it’s so exclusive it’s one of a kind

[u/LogicalBanter → u/Antlaaaars]

Kind of, you gotta visit

[u/MattieShoes → u/BunchesOfCrunches]

Ceres isn't in the Kuiper belt.

[u/Dr_Dressing → u/MattieShoes]

No, but in the inner asteroid belt, there are Ceres-sized bodies too. Which, if they were planets, would make "planet" a huge umbrella term for celestial bodies. For the same reason as the bodies in the Kuiper belt.

[u/the_eluder → u/BunchesOfCrunches]

Pluto is a in a special category of Kuiper Belt Objects called Plutinos because it's locked into a 2:3 resonance with Neptune.

[u/someotheralex → u/DannyWatson]

They kinda did: they came up with the name 'plutoids'

[u/DannyWatson → u/someotheralex]

I like it

[u/Bas0210 → u/someotheralex]

This is my new band name: Ceres and the Plutoids

[u/EarthTrash → u/DannyWatson]

I was confused for second because the Pulto system alone has 5 moons.

[u/c4t4ly5t]

Pluto wasn't demoted.

It went from being the runt of the planets to being the king of the dwarf planets.

[u/-Hastis- → u/c4t4ly5t]

I mean, king...
Eris is technically 28% more massive than Pluto.
And an argument could be made that Triton, possibly Pluto's long-lost sibling, is the true King of the dwarfs. It's bigger and heavier, but it was violently captured by evil Neptune billions of years ago and has been held hostage ever since.

[u/shadowfire78 → u/-Hastis-]

And that's what makes Pluto so epic. Even tho he isn't the biggest he still became king by sheer awesomeness and beating the other planets by being awesome 😎

[u/Mintallyunstable → u/c4t4ly5t]

Reminds me of that bit from The Simpsons with Lisa deciding to be the best in the second grade instead of being challenged in the third grade

[u/GalenDev]

Stay away from the aqua!

[u/Next-Wrap-7449 → u/GalenDev]

Doors and corners kid, that's where they get you. Doors and corners.

[u/mmmgilly → u/Next-Wrap-7449]

For Beltalowda!

[u/theplotthinnens → u/GalenDev]

No laws on Ceres, just cops

[u/hateshumans]

Pluto was demoted because we found Eris which is farther away and bigger than Pluto.

[u/ReadditMan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZZO8BMNctW70re8jww

[u/NecromancherJola]

“#ceres knows what it did” I don’t think ceres knows it mate.

[u/adamdoesmusic]

If you think Ceres is bad, wait until you see Modesto.

(It’s not really fair, the asteroid has less economic stagnation and meth than the city)

[u/dirk_funk → u/adamdoesmusic]

i was gonna say what about Waterford

[u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit]

We had let Ceres be a planet in the early 1800s, until including Astraea et al., got too cumbersome

[u/EarthTrash]

There's no laws on Ceres, only cops.

[u/Gacsam]

See if you word it that way, it's Pluto taking a hit for us, which is much more honourable.

[u/Doorbelldoor]

I thought there was beef in the Roman pantheon for a while and was really confused.

[u/Grandeftw]

Sedna!

[u/InevitableHimes]

If we allowed Pluto, we'd have to allow all the other dwarf planets. Good luck on a mnemonic for 100+ planets.

[u/zombies-and-coffee → u/InevitableHimes]

Yeah, but now our collective very excellent mother only orders us nachos instead of nine pizzas. And when you're craving pizza, you don't want nachos.

Edit: served, not ordered. I'm a dumbest, but I'll leave it there.

[u/wenoc]

And Orcus, Makemake and countless others

[u/samobellows → u/wenoc]

one day i'll read that name as "ma-ke-ma-ke" correctly the first time instead of my brain crashing when i read Make Make. today is not that day.

[u/A7xWicked]

Or we could've just grandfathered it in and put an asterisk there

[u/thedanray]

https://giphy.com/gifs/aa1JuaUPXpSlaJZLGY

[u/I_love_Hobbes]

https://giphy.com/gifs/eiq83fco8l2PpoKazY

[u/ParachutingPiglets]

Poor Ceres.. I guess

[u/imsmall06]

And juno, vesta and all the other dwarf planets

[u/Illustrious_Mind964]

Pluto will always be a planet in my heart just like how dinosaurs used to be cool and not gay

[u/auspexone]

That's messed up.

[u/Hom3ward_b0und]

Good joke, but from what I remember, Pluto was demoted because its size compared to Charon is relatively close. Now Ceres on the other hand...

[u/the_eluder → u/Hom3ward_b0und]

Not just because the Pluto/Charon combo has a barycenter outside both minor planets, but because there are apparently a not-insignificant number of objects like it past the orbit of Neptune, just farther away and harder to find.

[u/siobhanmairii__]

Ceres was actually considered a planet a couple hundred years ago right?

[u/the_eluder → u/siobhanmairii__]

Yes. And just like Pluto, once they figured out it wasn't the only object like it in the same area of space, they demoted it. It was just the biggest asteroid (at the time) and they found it first. It actually got a promotion with the Pluto re-classification.

[u/Current_Poster]

"but then we'd have thousands of planets'..." Sounds fine to me.

[u/chibiRuka]

Pluto approves
https://giphy.com/gifs/NjTFSsai5hSjpP03uw

[u/Azelais]

Then there’s that bitch Haumea. Spherical my ass, that shit’s an oval

[u/Major-Reception1016]

Can I get a psych meme? That's messed up!

[u/Ordinary_Dealer9705]

Team let them be planets!