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You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

without orbital dominance?

amazon.com ass planet with fake reviews.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So Neptune has a rogue rock in its orbit that also orbits the sun and we're just gonna give Neptune a pass on that one because we saw it first.

At best, this is size discrimination, and neptunotism, and we both know it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Look, just be careful that you don’t confuse proplutoism with antineptunotism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's delivered with a nice hand written note from a single mom in China so I 5 star anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Upvoted for funny doos ex name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The central point that Pluto and Charon orbit about is also outside of Pluto. All other planets have the center point located within the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-Charon_system-new.gif

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Then that makes it the solar system's first discovered Binary planets