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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Arioxel@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.

  (I copy-pasted this comment for the third time even though I don’t like to do that, but it’s important to know where does such reaction come from : partly from pure national pride)

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting, because I saw a looot of Europeans being very emotionally involved in the topic!

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s interesting because it’s completely bullshit.

    Americans don’t know SHIT about that lol

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• maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Average cluttered orbital neighborhood fan

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  Double dwarf planet Pluto - Charon system enjoyer

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• RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always a planet, fuck scienctists! (Seriously, nerdy chicks are hot, fuck them.")

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A dwarf planet is still a planet

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pfft I’ve got a bigger moon.

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      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Please keep your pants up.

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• MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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