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girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’d agree with you but the definition is arbitrary and is not of natural kind. Even worse, instead of making the definition of a planet more clear it just makes the determining what is a planet more difficult.

Honestly, if they just went with defining ‘Major Planets’, ‘Minor Planets’, and asteroids determined by mass and spherical shape, I think everyone would’ve moved on by now.

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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

it just makes the determining what is a planet more difficult.

If this is true, then please tell me what totally non-arbitrary reason there was for Ceres to not be universally considered a planet?

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- girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m not sure what you mean. It should be a planet by the definition I gave before unless I didn’t convey what I was trying to say correctly. It’s definitely large, heavy, and spherical enough to be a planet in my opinion.
  
  There’s tons of different sized objects in our solar system and it’s distinguishable enough to qualify in this one.
  
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