The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton

StartsWithABang writes: Out beyond Neptune, the last of our Solar System's gas giants, the icy graveyard of failed planetesimals lurks: the Kuiper Belt. Among these mixes of ice, snow, dust and rock are a number of worlds — possibly a few hundred — massive enough to pull themselves into hydrostatic equilibrium. The most famous among them are Pluto, the first one ever discovered, and Eris, of comparable size but undoubtedly more massive. But there's an even larger, more massive object from the Kuiper Belt than either of these, yet you never hear about it: it's Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, a true Kuiper Belt object!

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No it isn't

[Spy Handler]

Triton was a Kuiper belt object. Now it's not.

How long must the discrimination go on? Surely a billion years is enough to qualify for Neptunian citizenship?