Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, experts suggest

Tech Explorist: In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) proposed a definition of a planet that left out Pluto, causing it to lose status and relegate it as a dwarf planet. Since Neptune’s gravity impacts its neighboring planet Pluto, and Pluto imparts its circle to solidified gases and protests in the Kuiper belt, that implied Pluto was out of planet status.
In a new study by the UCF planetary scientist Philip Metzger suggests that this standard for classifying planets is not supported in the research literature.
Metzger says there is no support in the research literature for requiring a planet to clear its orbit. The scientist reviewed the publications made in the last 200 years and found that only one, from 1802, used this requirement to classify a planet. In addition, this single publication was based on a reasoning that has since been refuted.
He said, “moons such as Saturn’s Titan and Jupiter’s Europa have been routinely called planets by planetary scientists since the time of Galileo.”“The IAU definition would say that the fundamental object of planetary science, the planet, is supposed to be a defined on the basis of a concept that nobody uses in their research. And it would leave out the second-most complex, an interesting planet in our solar system.”“We now have a list of well over 100 recent examples of planetary scientists using the word planet in a way that violates the IAU definition, but they are doing it because it’s functionally useful. It’s a sloppy definition. They didn’t say what they meant by clearing their orbit. If you take that literally, then there are no planets, because no planet clears its orbit.”