Dwarf Planets are people too

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc

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  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pluto ain’t gonna quit, impact craters level out after a while, and that mofo has more geologically interesting shit going on than most people realize.

    svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13000

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  • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think I’m seeing shit I’ve seen a perfect protostar I’ve seen a triple quasar But I’ve never seen a dwarf planet go this hard!

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pluto is still a planet, dwarf planets are still planets just smaller.

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Illinois, we passed a law acknowledging Pluto as a planet because we are the most open and accepting state.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t be the only one who hates this “omg guys Pluto has to be a planet!” meme shit that won’t die.

  Who fucking cares? Yes, we used to call it one thing, and now we call it something else. Get over it.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you. I have a kid I work with that looooves space. To him, dwarf planets and regular planets are equally interesting. When we watch space videos that point out Pluto in some way, he’s just confused. Like a video about the 8 planets ending in a frowning Pluto.

    The kid: “Why is Pluto sad?”

    Me: “Well, bud, some grown ups are silly. They grew up thinking of Pluto as a planet and they don’t like that its status changed.”

    But to him, Pluto has no reason to be “sad.” It’s got Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris to be friends with! But nobody makes a big deal over them (if they even are aware of their existence at all. This boy has single-handedly educated many of my coworkers about them.)

    Point is, grown ups - let it go! Scientific reclassification doesn’t mean Pluto was ejected from the solar system or something. It’s still there and it’s still loved. It just plays with different friends now.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least Pluto is rock solid, looking at you Jupiter and Saturn. Ya’ll wish you half the silicate mass!

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uranus is full of farts!

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  • teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jupiter’s got diamond bones, baby.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but they’re fuzzy.

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• Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget).

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, people don’t realise that removing Pluto is the conservative choice when it comes to the list of planets.

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    • sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was the only choice if we are expecting elementary students to memorize them all in order.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The more the merrier

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  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d be happy with:

    Pluto = planet

    Anything smaller than Pluto ≠ planet

    Nine planets. Now with clear non-stupid rules.

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    • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.

      Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

      Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My objection to “dwarf planet” is purely a linguistically aesthetic one.

  “Dwarf planet” ≠ planet

  …implies…

  “Dwarf person” ≠ person

  …and I feel like the people under 4’10" (147 cm) would object to that distinction.

  Also, “planetoid” was a perfectly cromulent word which Star Trek had been using for decades already.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Different meanings. “Dwarf person” = a person with dwarfism, but “dwarf planet” ≠ a planet with dwarfism.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are plenty of linguistically unintuitive artifacts kicking around (a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, a jellyfish is not a fish, all of the “berries” which aren’t berries), but if we’re deliberately creating brand new labels in the 21st century, it might have been nice if we’d avoided that kind of oddness, given the opportunity.

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    • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you test Pluto to make sure its not just a regularplanet with dwarfism?

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