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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

pluto pls

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pluto pls

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago
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    The “cleared its orbit” requirement is too arbitrary and non-scientific. We should’ve gone the other direction and classified more objects as planets.

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      Feels like we can agree to disagree on that one but I hope we can all agree that Neil deGrasse Tyson is fucking annoying.

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        While we can disagree on the latter portion, the first sentence is simply fact. The IAU does not provide any guidelines based on quantifiable data for this requirement.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood

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        I like him.

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      well yeah it’s quite readily admitted to be non-scientific, scientists generally just use “celestial object” afaik.

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      Then we’d have several hundred to a few thousand planets and need a new term for the larger celestial objects anyway. Seems silly. Planet is already arbitrary.

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      Unironically this

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