Poor Pluto. One day you’re a planet, the next day you’re a “dwarf with potential.”

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    they realized it wasn’t a planet.

    They made the definition of a planet more precise after Ceres and then again when they found even more comparable objects. The definition update that changed Pluto’s category was necessary because it would have added a half dozen new planets if they kept Pluto as a planet.