• Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    The only reason Pluto is no longer a planet is because we discovered there were loads more planets and couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge their existence!

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      8 months ago

      i’ve spent 25 years on this blue marble fascinated by space, and only recently discovered there multiple long orbit dwarf planets going around the sun??? that is so cool why is this not widely known!

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      8 months ago

      It’s been like that for decades to be honest. Ceres used to be called a planet, but you don’t see anyone complaining about it’s demotion

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      but so what?

      we used to have a handful of elements, but when we kept discovering more, we didn’t change the rules to have elements, and “strange elements” so schools only have to teach about 16 elements.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 months ago

        It’s all just made up categorization. It’s like that because astronomers have agreed to categorize them like that. That’s all.