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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why it is so important to keep a clean living/work space. Had Pluto just cleaned out its area this planet would be the much cooler named 'Planet X', with 'X' serving double duty as '10' and 'mysterious'.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now it has to be called Planet IX, a truly wretched fate.

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Watch out for their sonic tanks, though.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The best candidate yet for the elusive Planet Nine has been spotted in two deep infrared surveys taken 23 years apart. If this mystery object really is Planet Nine, it would have a mass greater than Neptune, and currently be about 700 times farther from the sun than Earth is.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pluto is the ninth planet. Fuck Neil "The Grass" Mike Tyson and all of his sciency cohorts! /s

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if we count Pluto as a planet, it wouldn't be ninth. Because Ceres would then also be a planet between Mars and Jupiter, shifting the numbering order.

[–] lijygred@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Genuinely loled at this