• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Can you explains the knitpicking? They specifically decided that only objects orbiting our star can be Planets. It wasn’t an oversight but intentional. How can that be explained? Why do that?

    Also, how can mercury be explained? It clearly violated one of the 3 rules with no given exception other than they just decided it can be a planet. Why?

    25% of the 8 objects they wrote rules for needed an exception to make the cut. That doesn’t seem odd?

    • The_Decryptor@aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      Can you explains the knitpicking? They specifically decided that only objects orbiting our star can be Planets. It wasn’t an oversight but intentional. How can that be explained? Why do that?

      Because we’re not going to be visiting any exoplanets anytime soon, so it’s not like we can actually check how much they’ve cleared their orbits.