alt Hacker NewsI initially assumed from your comment that all of those objects are larger than Pluto, but none of them are, so what exactly is "obvious" about the decision? They haven't resolved any inconsistency by demoting it.
I initially assumed from your comment that all of those objects are larger than Pluto, but none of them are, so what exactly is "obvious" about the decision? They haven't resolved any inconsistency by demoting it.
Eris has more mass. And our Moon, the Galilean moons of Jupiter, Titan and Triton are all both larger and more massive.