Planet Pluto it is the smallest in the solar system, and some scientists do not even consider it to be a planet in the true sense of the word, and this is where many controversies started over time. Even if some do not consider the planet Pluto to be a planet, but a "dwarf planet", or just another cosmic object, a chief researcher from NASA has a completely different opinion when it comes to this planet in the solar system .
Planet Pluto it should not be viewed otherwise than as a large body that belongs to the category of planets, or at least that's what Dr. Alan Stern, who leads the New Horizons mission at NASA, said. As part of this mission, Stern led the research team that observed the planet Pluto in 2015, and based on the information he saw, he is firmly convinced that this is a planet, and not some other cosmic body in universe.
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Planet Pluto it cannot be classified in any other way because it would not be logical from a scientific point of view to see any other classification next to this planet in the solar system. Stern says that the planet Pluto is not officially classified as a planet because its orbit is influenced by the planet Neptune, and because it orbits in the Kuiper belt along with other objects of somewhat similar sizes, and that is why its official classification it's different.
"The purpose of the IAU in creating this definition was to limit the number of planets in our Solar Systems so that school kids wouldn't have to memorize long lists of planets. Astronomers became afraid of astronomically large numbers."
Planet Pluto it would not be officially classified as a planet, but as a dwarf planet, because, according to Stern, international experts did not want to classify all objects in the Kuiper belt as planets. Stern says that this would have allowed the classification of hundreds of objects there as planets, so the planet Pluto would not have remained the last in the solar system, but would have been just one of many that are in that region at the moment, and that would have caused problems.
Planet Pluto it still remains at the center of many conflicting discussions about how it should, or should not, be classified, so it remains to be seen what exactly scientists will elaborate on in the future.
