Comments by "C S ~ \x5bDuke of Ramble\x5d" (@DUKE_of_RAMBLE) on "The Planet Closer to the Sun than Mercury | Vulcan" video.

  1.  @ravenlord4  I even GOT the joke, appreciated the genius snark of it, and yet... came here to post exactly that: Too Soon!™ 😭🤣 But on a serious note, I don't think "clearing one's orbit" is the best determining factor. Unless we're saying: A) that an Earth-sized planet in Pluto's place, with a similar orbital time frame as Pluto (300-some years?), would be able to... B) or that it is in no way possible for 2 hypothetically-identical planets to occupy the same orbital distance from its patent star, at the same speed, but 180° apart; which would thereby mean each planet will not have cleared their orbit due to the other's presence... 😏 (lol now I'm tempted to fire up Universe Sandbox, just to see what happens in such an instance, even with the inaccurate physics that takes place in the game when time is sped up) And yes, I know how infinitesimaly small the chance of B happening is, given it'd require the other planet to be a captured one, and still equal in mass, and insert at the same speed, and end up in an orbit 180° from the other planet's. Alas, their definition was of clearing an orbit, so I'm just coming up with a hypothetical situation to invalidate its use towards determining a celestial body's classification as a planet! 😁
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