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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yes and I know that Pluto fails the final test, although it's a bit difficult to really to say in what context that matters, because it's in the Kiper belt which is incredibly diffuse anyway.

But actually astrophysicists have long since said that the established definition of planet is far too vague and needs tighter definitions

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