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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. Ceres was considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and around the 1950s began to be classified as an asteroid. It is now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto. It’s the largest thing in the asteroid belt but is still sort of planet shaped.

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• ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay then maybe the electron shells model of an atom. That was taught as fact and it’s definitely not true even though it’s still useful

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