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BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months agoArenyou 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.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. We could have had a planet Orcus and we were like “nah, we’ll pass.” That would have been metal as shit.