Because those other bodies are worlds. In centuries to come, every one of these will be important and uniquely valued.
What kind of argument is "reality too hard to science." – Dogmatic clown level arguments. Anyone stating this should be purged from academia. This is the culture of the crisis academics talk about. This is the collapse. Fundamental contextual logic has failed. Planet is a verb, by the IAU definition, used incorrectly as a noun, in an oxymoron, with recursion. That is epic 16th century level nonsense. Nouns and verbs are what, 3rd grade level skills?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So it was basically laziness on the part of the international astronomical community.