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ummonkyesterday at 11:31 PM1 replyview on HN

No that would be an argument to return to the original definition of planets (highly visible celestial objects that migrate across the sky, i.e. the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn).

If you believe in the "standard 9" you're just insisting on returning to a scientific definition of planets but one that is frozen on our scientific understanding from a few decades ago...


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odyssey7yesterday at 11:37 PM

As you can see, there are many valid ways to go about understanding what a planet is in a cultural sense.