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Dolly_gale t1_j3l69nl wrote

Reply to comment by alexmikli in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator

I attended a "planet walk" hosted by the astronomy department of a state university. It was about a mile long. Participants start at the sun and as they walk along there is a little model and informational placard about each planet. When I got to Neptune, I got a little sad and kept walking. Turned out that they included a model of Pluto. When I returned to the beginning, I mentioned to one of the host students how delighted I was to see it. I asked why it was included despite the fact it wasn't a planet anymore.

"It's still there," she answered.

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Underscore_Blues t1_j3lu46a wrote

Then you should have been asking where Eris was, as it's larger than Pluto. Her answer was bad and not truthful.

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Dolly_gale t1_j3moyka wrote

Well, they also represented the asteroid belt. Perhaps they should have called it the "Solar system walk" instead of "planet walk."

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