Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• diverging@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ceres was considered a planet in the first half of the 1800’s, along with a bunch of things in the asteroid belt. There was a point where there were 64 planets.

  In the present state of knowledge astronomers give us the following list:
  Sixty-four “primary planets” revolving round the Sun as our Earth does.
  Twenty satellites, including our Moon.
  Of the sixty-four primary planets fifty-six are asteroids, comparatively small bodies, all of which were discovered in this century, and fifty-two since the year 1844.]

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