• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    Why the fuck we didn’t just deem Eris into planethood I’ll never understand. Both it and Pluto are arguably more similar to Terra than the gas giants are.

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      27 minutes ago

      I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we’d have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.