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[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

How many planets have ever completed an orbit around the sun: 8, since Pluto has such a long orbital period that in its entire time as a planet it did not even finish a single one.

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[–] diverging@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pluto has completed millions of orbits around the sun.

At the time of the IAUs release of the definition of a planet, Neptune had not completed an orbit since its discovery, and yet they still called it a planet. Clearly, this weird and arbitrary statement that you have put forth did not matter.

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[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

I think it was sufficiently clear to just be a fun fact, not the implication that pluto did not complete orbits around the sun before it was discovered or whatever

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[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Neptune has completed one though. So Pluto is the only planet to officially not complete an orbit while it was called a planet. It doesn't affect whether it's a planet or not, it's just an interesting quiz question.

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