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Re:New Horizons phones home by lmm on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @05:10AM (#9890389)
Ceres was robbed of planetary status before it was cool.
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Re:New Horizons phones home by valarauca1 on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:43AM (#9890785)
This isn't talked about more often but its kinda funny. During roughly the American Revolution there were 10 planets.

Neptune/Pluto weren't yet discovered. Instead we had Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, George (Uranus), Ceres, Vesta, and several other minor asteroids.

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