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  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzpluto
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    3 months ago

    Sure, people have taken the matter way too personal. That’s mostly people who have a nostalgic relationship to their childhood classes about “the 9 planets”.

    As I’ve read, they made the definition in the particular way to remove gray areas of inaccurate meassurements. A celestial body shouldn’t be wrongly classified due to being a few kilometres larger than some limit, then be reclassified later due to better meassurements. Planets need to be somewhat spherical, orbit a star and clear their orbit from significant debris. They made a great system which doesn’t leave big gray areas. A planet is defined in a well thought out way by people way smarter than me.

    And then they go and call the non-planets “dwarf planets”.


  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzpluto
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    3 months ago

    The “big” deal is that a ton of celestial bodies of comparable size to pluto would have to be considered either as planets or as general debris. Finding a clear definition which would include pluto as a planet and not include other stuff would be very impractical and possibly nearly impossible.

    But the biggest fuck up was to name a non-planet a “dwarf planet”.