@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 24 days agoYou are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planetlemmy.worldimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down120
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•23 days agoNot according to the IAU. According to the IAU, “planets and dwarf planets are two distinct classes of objects” – in other words, “dwarf planets” are not planets.
A dwarf planet is a type of planet, right?
Not according to the IAU.
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