No, our scientific understanding evolved, and a classification of something changed. It’s really not any deeper than that.
Happens constantly in science. Kind of one of its defining features actually
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troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pluto never changed, we did
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The beauty of science. Most exciting when we find out we’re incorrect
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
Exactly. Planet is a social construct and we changed the threshold for what was considered one.