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[-] Kerrigor@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The "cleared its orbit" requirement is too arbitrary and non-scientific. We should've gone the other direction and classified more objects as planets.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Unironically this

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then we'd have several hundred to a few thousand planets and need a new term for the larger celestial objects anyway. Seems silly. Planet is already arbitrary.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

well yeah it's quite readily admitted to be non-scientific, scientists generally just use "celestial object" afaik.

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