Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: Isn't the discovery of Neptune what put an end to Ceres planetary status?

Ceres,Pallas , Juno, Vesta

Those worlds were considered planets (even though no one could say at the time which one was round) but they seemed a family of their own AND Neptune was discovered 40 years later (which was huge and looking like Uranus) and that convinced astronomers the 4 small ones couldn't be called planets.

Very much the same thing goes on now because of Eris.

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