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Lucas Duffeck
edit approved Nov 24, 2017 at 15:33
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Destiny's Children, Exultant by Stephen Baxter (2004). Pluto isn't called 'not a planet', but it is called a Kuiper belt object and a worldlet:

There are many bodies out here, some massive. Pluto is one, Port Sol another... But they add up to only about a fifth of Earth's mass. There should have been thousands of worldlets the size of Pluto or larger.

It took the IAU a few years to decide Pluto belonged belonged in the dwarf planet class, but many people, including authors, were aware of the reclassification before it was made official.

Destiny's Children, Exultant by Stephen Baxter (2004). Pluto isn't called 'not a planet', but it is called a Kuiper belt object and a worldlet:

There are many bodies out here, some massive. Pluto is one, Port Sol another... But they add up to only about a fifth of Earth's mass. There should have been thousands of worldlets the size of Pluto or larger.

It took the IAU a few years to decide Pluto belonged belonged in the dwarf planet class, but many people, including authors, were aware of the reclassification before it was made official.

Destiny's Children, Exultant by Stephen Baxter (2004). Pluto isn't called 'not a planet', but it is called a Kuiper belt object and a worldlet:

There are many bodies out here, some massive. Pluto is one, Port Sol another... But they add up to only about a fifth of Earth's mass. There should have been thousands of worldlets the size of Pluto or larger.

It took the IAU a few years to decide Pluto belonged in the dwarf planet class, but many people, including authors, were aware of the reclassification before it was made official.

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Destiny's Children, Exultant by Stephen Baxter (2004). Pluto isn't called 'not a planet', but it is called a Kuiper belt object and a worldlet:

There are many bodies out here, some massive. Pluto is one, Port Sol another... But they add up to only about a fifth of Earth's mass. There should have been thousands of worldlets the size of Pluto or larger.

It took the IAU a few years to decide Pluto belonged belonged in the dwarf planet class, but many people, including authors, were aware of the reclassification before it was made official.