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Pluto is Of No Asteroid Hits

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I can't believe I haven't heard of Planetball before until now! It's SO FUNNY. Best of all, it's primarily a collection of fanmade comics hahaha! I don't like plain ol' Polandball as much because one needs to know and appreciate history and current events to understand it, so it's rarely funny to me. But I loved its style and concept, and when I found Planetball, which is essentially just like Polandball but with planets and astronomy, planetary science, astrophysics, and other space jokes, I couldn't help but to immediately love it because I fully understood its jokes, and they're often slightly more esoteric, haha! There's yet to be a Pclolandball that I've found with the recent "actual" look of Pluto so I made one. This is a joke most people would be able to understand. 

Contrary to popular belief, Pluto got declassified because it isn't the majority of the mass in its orbit (which isn't fair I say because there's a LOT more debris in the Kuiper belt), not because it's "too small." While it is true that it's smaller than our moon, that's not why we declassified it. I still think, after seeing the New Horizons pictures, that Pluto should be considered a planet and we should redefine what we call a planet. The people that decided on its classification were astrophysicists, not planetary scientists (there's a difference, trust me). We have such a bad definition of what we consider to be a planet. By this logic, we shouldn't consider "neutron stars" to be stars because they don't undergo nuclear fusion, or consider our Sun to be a star because it won't explode in a supernova. It's circumstantial. If Pluto were in the inner solar system, yes, it'd be a dwarf much like Ceres. But Pluto is in an area with SO MUCH debris (yet it has surprisingly few craters, possibly in part to do with its low mass, despite being in an area filled with VERY MANY icy rocks that could potentially strike it. But there are just so many of these rocks that even if you found an Earth-sized orb there, it wouldn't clear all the debris in its orbit. It'd take something like Jupiter or some other gas giant to do such. 
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I wouldn't go as far to say it didn't get hit.. Since Pluto has "air" and a polar cap  that suggest to me it may have some kind of weather pattren as strange as it sounds and it just may have been covered up by all that ice and stuff and since ice is far less dense and has "snow" . It wouldn't leave as big of an impact.. It would not surprise me to find out that it's got a bunch of rocks that hit it in it's ice mantle... Also due to it's orbit I think it may have melting "snow and ice" which would fill up any holes they made because that is what happens on most worlds with "air".. The more we learn... the more I'm sure we will find those missing pockmarks... I mean look at Earth.. we got hit enough times with very little to show for it... Only places like the moon shows what is really happing out there...