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claudiajcregg · 2 years ago

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wow pluto reclassification discourse is exhausting. here I thought doing a poll that highlights some of pluto's cool lesser known dwarf planet friends would put things in a context where it can't possibly go in that direction but nope a bunch people really do just hold a hard stance against a classification system entirely out of a sense of nostalgia

#I haven't read it all but what I have is wild #I might've been surprised when it happened but it makes sense to me?#especially since they had discovered a couple more like it #there are so many pluto-like objects in the solar system #I don't think we had a huge discussion in astro or space science 101 but it's also been 10 years so 🤷‍♀️#I was bummed when it happened (I was a tween!) but it doesn't mean that pluto ceased to exist or be as cool as it is #it just has a different title #to read later #long post #also! michael brown and his 'pluto killer' nickname is fun

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