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am_Unition · 3447 days ago · link · · parent · post: NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
Imagine if you had launched a probe to a planet, and while it was on the way there (nine years), the scientific community decided that it was a dwarf planet. Because that's what happened to New Horizons. I mean, it's all arbitrary, but slightly insulting.