Comment on pluto
diverging@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The stupidest consequence of the definition is not the classification of Pluto, but that there are only eight planets in the entire universe.
a planet is a celestial body that:
- is in orbit around the Sun
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
*a sun
diverging@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
No. I copied and pasted that. The definition says ‘the Sun’. There was a proposal to classify ‘exoplanets’ but the IAU never accepted it, and so those large masses orbiting other stars remain undefined.