I don't believe that anything of importance in modern theories of gravity and physics rests on the orbit of Pluto. One of the early successes of the general theory of relativity was its accurate prediction of the rotation of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury. David Greenberg (a former physicist), Sociology Department, New York University
I remember reading a complaint once that, if
> statisticians
> ruled the natural sciences, Pluto would have been tossed out as an
> outlier
> and we'd have never come up with some of the modern theories of
> gravity and
> physics.
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