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You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Squorlple@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I saw it named planet 9

Named so here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine

Planet X

~~Ceres~~ and Eris didn’t even get turns being planets

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 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.]