• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Arenyou gonna start calling Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Orcus planets?

    We went through this 150 years ago ehen the asteroid belt was discovered. Every astronomer wanted credit for discovering a new planet, so at one point there were 15 before all the astronomers got together and said it was untenable.

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      6 months ago

      Yes. We could have had a planet Orcus and we were like “nah, we’ll pass.” That would have been metal as shit.