It was a burning question of mine for a while now:

I understand that dwarf planets like Pluto and Ceres aren’t considered planets of the solar system, but why are they called ‘dwarf PLANETS’ if they aren’t planets.

And no one really says, “the sun isn’t a star, it’s a Dwarf Star”. Nor is it declassified as one because of it.

So, why are dwarf planets not planets, but dwarf stars are stars?

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Just the extra mass of 13 times I know doesn’t sounds like a lot but going from Earth to Jupiter’s is about 318 times. Maybe instead of protostar we should use failed star since it has all the hydrogen and seller dust of that a star would used forces fuel.