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Old 09-27-2018, 04:07 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
There are about 100 other unnamed objects in our solar system - that are LARGER than Pluto. Why aren't they all planets?
I've done some searching over the past couple days, and try as I might I can't find any unnamed solar system objects larger than Pluto, and only 16 named objects (by volume; Eris is slightly more massive but has a smaller radius). Do you have a source for this? Even NASA says the largest unnamed object yet discovered, 2007 OR10, is "about one-third smaller than Pluto."

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