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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Ceres was considered a planet in the first half of the 1800's, along with a bunch of things in the asteroid belt. There was a point where there were 64 planets.

In the present state of knowledge astronomers give us the following list:
Sixty-four "primary planets" revolving round the Sun as our Earth does.
Twenty satellites, including our Moon.
Of the sixty-four primary planets fifty-six are asteroids, comparatively small bodies, all of which were discovered in this century, and fifty-two since the year 1844.]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

No. I copied and pasted that. The definition says 'the Sun'. There was a proposal to classify 'exoplanets' but the IAU never accepted it, and so those large masses orbiting other stars remain undefined.

Exoplanets are addressed in a 2003 position statement issued by a now-defunct IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets. However, this position statement was never proposed as an official IAU resolution and was never voted on by IAU members.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The stupidest consequence of the definition is not the classification of Pluto, but that there are only eight planets in the entire universe.

a planet is a celestial body that:

  1. is in orbit around the Sun
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Leap year creator

That's Julius Caesar. Sort of...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think that is DR Congo. More french speakers than France.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

a 19 year old deputy?

Are you under the impression that deputy is a high rank in the sheriffs department? (It's an entry level position) Or are you saying that someone should only become a cop after they have failed at other professions and are looking to start a new career?

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

It’s a New York thing

New York the state or NYC?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

he said he would be a 1 term president

No, he didn't. Other people, who had absolutely no say in what Biden would do, said he wouldn't run again.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474059-biden-campaign-denies-one-term-report/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Even Biden said he was only going to run once.

I don't think Biden ever said that he would run only once. The news was that a few anonymous sources who were supposedly close to the Biden campaign said that he would not run for re-election and his campaign then denied that.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474059-biden-campaign-denies-one-term-report/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

This is the third eruption in the same place in the past two months, if 'a volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland' was on your bingo card it should have already been marked. And having 'any volcano erupts' on a bingo card would make the game too easy since there are about fifty volcanos erupting at any one time.

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