Why Pluto Should Be a Planet

Pluto was demoted from its planetary status in 2006, but was there a good reason for this? In this video I discuss why Pluto (and the Moon) should be planets again.

Sources
Screenshots of article headlines are from:
Protesters, supporting Pluto, say size doesn't matter
https://www.9news.com/article/news/protesters-supporting-pluto-say-size-doesnt-matter/73-344453173

Clyde Tombaugh's Family Joins Protest of Pluto's Downgrade
https://www.space.com/2848-clyde-tombaugh-family-joins-protest-pluto-downgrade.html

Friends, colleagues of Pluto discoverer protest demotion
https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/2006/09/03/friends-colleagues-of-pluto-discoverer-protest-demotio/48163647/

The IAU definition of a planet is stated here in this article
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/

The definition of Soter’s Mu and its values for the different planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/508861/pdf

Kepler-1625b I information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-1625b_I

Kepler-1708 b-i information
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35399159/

2MASS J11193254–1137466 AB information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MASS_J11193254%E2%80%931137466_AB

Where Wikipedia states the Moon is not in hydrostatic equilibrium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary-mass_moon

The shape of different bodies under hydrostatic equilibrium at different angular momentum https://www.josleys.com/show_gallery.php?galid=313

List of planets with Lagrangian moons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)
Where I got the sizes and masses of the different celestial bodies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

When I said the least massive white dwarf is 200 mass of the Jupiter, the was the white dwarf I was referring to
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab321b

Upper limt before becoming a brown dwarf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

Attribution
Images
At 0:15, the image IAU-GA-2006-Pluto-Vote by Aldebarium is used under CC BY-SA 4.0.The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Br Miller.

At 0:34, the image EightTNOs by Lexicon is used under CC BY 3.0. The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Br Miller.

At 0:48, the image Kuiper belt plot objects of outer solar system by WilyD is used under CC-BY-SA 3.0. The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Br Miller.

At 2:37, the image Planets everywhere by the European Southern Observatory is used under CC BY 4.0.

At 5:20, the rendering of the hypothetical exomoon was a screenshot from the software Celestia which is under a GNU General Public License.

At 5:44, the image 25 Solar System Objects Smaller than Earth by Primefac is used under CC BY 3.0.

At 5:33, the image Titan and Dione - May 21 2011 by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY 2.0.

At 5:40, the image Titan in true color by Kevin M. Gill by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY 2.0.

At 5:51, the image UpsilonAndromedae D moons by Lucianomendez is used under CC-BY-SA 3.0. The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Br Miller.

At 5:50, the image Exomoon Kepler-1625b-i orbiting its planet (artist’s impression) by ESA/Hubble is used under CC BY 4.0.

At 7:08, the image Planet Gamma Cephei Ab and Star B by Tyrogthekreeper is used under CC BY 3.0. The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Br Miller. This image was a screenshot from the software Celestia which is under a GNU General Public License.

At 8:14, the image Mimas - February 1 2011 by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY 2.0.

At 8:33, the image Ida - August 1993 by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY-SA 2.0. The section of the video where this image is used is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Br Miller.

At 8:48, the image SPHERE image of Hygiea by the European Southern Observatory is used under CC BY 4.0.

At 8:52, the image Miranda - January 24 1986 by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY 2.0.

At 9:15, the image MoonTopoLOLA by Mark A. Wieczorek is used under CC BY 3.0.

At 12:15, the image of Eris was closely based on Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris by the European Southern Observatory, used under CC BY 4.0.

At 12:55, the image Pluto, Charon, and Sun by Kevin Gill is used under CC BY 3.0.

Music
Sharp Edges - half.cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHlH9js8ECk

Trancer - Gunnar Olsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeZAPuLHUs


00:00 Intro
00:35 Why Pluto was Demoted
02:35 Criticism of the Current Definition of a Planet
10:06 A Better Definition
12:37 Outro