For example, consider the status quo solar system model of circular and elliptical orbits. So how does Venus and Mercury show up as lights in the morning in daytime?

The inclination of deflection and light reflection would have to be so sharp, that for Mercury it wouldn’t exist as a full body.

With the exception of Mercury, the rest of the planets have very circular orbits, but Pluto does not. Neptune’s eccentricity is 0.0095 but Pluto’s is 0.249. Also Pluto’s orbit is on a significantly different plane compared to the rest of the planets.

Part of the early conviction that Pluto was a planet came from the belief that it was Planet X. Early celestial mechanics calculations indicated that the orbits of Uranus and Neptune weren’t correct unless there was another undiscovered planet, Planet X. In the final wash, Planet X was just a case of bad data in, and bad conclusions out.

BTW, Ceres is now deemed a dwarf planet. It’s fully rounded, too.

Pluto is also a couplet.

Its companion moon is tidally locked… just like our Moon.

It’s MUCH closer to Pluto than the Moon is to Earth, and the mass ratios cause both to spin around a center point that is OUTSIDE the surface of Pluto. This is unique.

Even so, it has other, ultra-dinky, moons.

“The dwarf planet Pluto has five moons down to a detection limit of about 1 km in diameter. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.[1]

Charon, the largest of the five moons, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto—Charon is sometimes considered a double dwarf planet.”

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So, they drummed Pluto out of the planet roll call by waiting till there weren’t many scientists left at the meeting before they took the vote?

It worked for the Federal Reserve Act that was operated and controlled by private interests that are unelected.

“Sounds like politics to me.”, to me too.

I’m reminded of this: If you are to mix ice cream with dog poop the resulting mixture will taste more like the latter than the former. Likewise science and politics.