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  • Zoift [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lol, the dwarf planet thing is funny. Like, come-on Boomer, Do you really want to memorize like a dozen new planets? Does your inner childhood give a fuck about MakeMake? Do you have a parasocial relationship with Ceres?

    At least with feathered dinos it was "changing" some weirdass preconceived notion of what a dino was supposed to be. How did that happen with Pluto? Nobody has a good grasp on the relative sizes of celestial bodies, not even astronomers. Lol damn, shut up.

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          4 years ago

          Ceres is fun, because its the Pluto debate, just a few generations earlier. It was the first object found in the asteroi belt, before we knew about the asteroid belt, so it got billing as the 4th planet for a few decades. Then we started finding all it's neighbors, realized nobody wants to memorize +10,000 planets, and reclassified it as an asteroid rather than a planet.

          It's now the innermost dwarf planet, and hopefully it'll get a lander mission soon.