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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (27 children)
[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The only reason Pluto is no longer a planet is because we discovered there were loads more planets and couldn't be bothered to acknowledge their existence!

It's been like that for decades to be honest. Ceres used to be called a planet, but you don't see anyone complaining about it's demotion

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