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The final result is a tie between Pluto and Ceres, with 6 votes each, so both will resolve to 50%. It seems Pluto got the benefit of being the most well-known as the only former planet on the list, while Ceres had the benefit of the funniest description. The only other options that got votes were Haumea, Quaoar, and Gonggong, with one vote each.

I will be asking the same question again on my big Manifold survey (including the funny descriptions), and you can bet on whether they will have the same result here: /JosephNoonan/will-the-dwarf-planet-question-on-m. Note the handling of ties in the description of that one (I anticipated that a Pluto-Ceres tie could be a likely outcome here, given how closely they were trading most of the time).

I checked, and there are only 8 responses to the poll, despite there being 15 traders on this market (okay, 14 if you don't count the bots). Who traded but didn't vote?

I made another poll-based market:

man big fan of sedna but I didn't know about quaoar before!

Are people betting on Ceres because it's their favorite, or because they like the joke description for it the best?

No “your mom” option. This market has been canceled.

Everyone's betting on Pluto, but Haumea is so much cooler

Quaoar's mystery ring:

https://www.space.com/mysterious-ring-around-dwarf-planet-puzzles-astronomers

A dwarf planet beyond Neptune has a mysterious ring that astronomers can’t explain

The ring is so far from the dwarf planet’s surface that its material should have coalesced into a moon. But somehow, it didn’t.