That wouldn't work, as then we'd have to classify every asteroid in the asteroid belt as a planet.
I think NASA's criteria on what's considered a planetary body should be much more strict.
Actually, the tail is created when the core object passes by the sun. The coma -IS- basically the primary object/body...I've never heard of anything involving Saturn...perhaps just my stupidity?
I've always personally considered Pluto to be considered more of a general, miniscule satellite of the solar system rather than a real planet. Just because object x isn't where all the other object x's are, doesn't mean said object is not, truly, object of the x variety. It's an asteroid, just not where it should be...I think that when it was finally seen in 1930, someone just got a little excited over finally glimpsing the (at the time) infamous 'Planet X'
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That wouldn't work, as then we'd have to classify every asteroid in the asteroid belt as a planet. I think NASA's criteria on what's considered a planetary body should be much more strict.
Actually, the tail is created when the core object passes by the sun. The coma -IS- basically the primary object/body...I've never heard of anything involving Saturn...perhaps just my stupidity?
I've always personally considered Pluto to be considered more of a general, miniscule satellite of the solar system rather than a real planet. Just because object x isn't where all the other object x's are, doesn't mean said object is not, truly, object of the x variety. It's an asteroid, just not where it should be...I think that when it was finally seen in 1930, someone just got a little excited over finally glimpsing the (at the time) infamous 'Planet X'