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Originally Posted by Argos
Neighborhood clearing... Thatīs laughable, to say the least. There seems to be no end to the arbitrarieties they can introduce to the definition. I make Owen Gingerichīs words mine.
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What's laughable? Frankly, I have read this forum for days and I can't find a scientific reason from those who are against the IAU resolution. It seems that many here are unable to see why the Kuiper and the asteroid belts are called "belts".
Ara Pacis, Triton is orbiting Neptune, which means that the gravitational influence of the latter makes Triton a satellite and not a wandering "dwarf planet", thus Neptune has cleared Titon from its own orbit.
Yes, there are many KBOs near Neptune's orbit, but that doesnīt mean it "hasnīt cleared its orbit", since these bodies, including Pluto, are in some kind of orbital resonance with neptune.
But please, donīt mention trojan asteroids anymore, since , as it's been said so many times before, the mass of all these asteroids is inferior in many orders of magnitude to Jupiter's or Neptuneīs mass.
The IAU resolution is not perfect: no decision on this subject will ever be perfect, buy it's the best I can imagine, especially compared to the strange alternatives I've read on this forum.