• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    1 年前

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