• Victor@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        No no, it’s Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, The Sun, and The Moon. The seven planets, and days of the week.

        — Ancient People

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          7 days ago

          All planets have elliptical orbits just like periodic comets. Comets’ elliptic is just more extreme.

          Mercury, Mars and Venus have tails, they just aren’t as visible.

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            While I understand they are all elliptical, isn’t that the reason they moved Pluto to a dwarf planet, because it’s orbit was “to elliptical” and crossing Neptune’s orbital path?

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              Its orbit is also at a considerable angle relative to the plane all other planets orbit in. That alone made me question it’s planet-ness long before it got demoted. And I felt really validated when Jim Carrey’s kids in Me, Myself and Irene argued about Pluto being a planet or not.