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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever a red car is still a car.

It’s dumb to say it isn’t a planet just because it hasn’t yet cleared its orbit. The decision to make it “not a planet” was also made by astronomers, not by planetary scientists. Like people with “Star” in their name know more about planets than people with “planet” in theirs.

Anyways it’s extra silly because if you have “real planets” and “dwarf planets” then what is the higher group containing those two? “Things that orbit the sun”? No, they should both be planets.

[–] BrerChicken@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not going to argue with astronomers about how they define planets. I do my job, they do theirs!