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Pluto losing its planet status may be the best thing that ever happened to solar system diversity

Pluto losing its planet status may be the best thing that ever happened to solar system diversityWorldPing

Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar system and for the former planet, too.

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