If Pluto became a non planet for being so far from the sun, will Mercury eventully become a non planet for being to close to the sun?
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TjoeBaxter is Hot Yo
ANSWERS: 7
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Well, that's not why Pluto isn't a planet.
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Yea... Once it gets sucked into the Sun. +point
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Pluto was demoted because it's too small, not too far away. It's smaller than our moon, and many other moons in the system.
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Pluto was demoted (there's opposition to this decision) to the status of minor or dwarf planet because it did not meet the third condition for an object to be considered a 'planet' as set out by 'The International Astronomical Union' which is that it must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit. Mercury will remain a planet until it's swallowed up by the Sun when it enters its red giant phase, just as Venus and it's suggested that Earth will follow the same fate.
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Hahaha. Exactly how close are we talikng here? Impact? Hi, TJ.
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Yes. The sun will eventually start feeling a little smothered by Mercury. Then Mercury won't back off and give the sun some extra space. Then, the sun will get even more resentful until they have to just break off the whole planet relationship. And then Mercury will be like, wow..."The whole world doesn't revolve around you!"
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TJ, its quite possible that Mercury will become a non-planet because it was sucked into the gravitational forces of the sun, therefore becoming a small part of the sun...
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