"here’s the thing that gets me and makes me think: if Pluto weren’t in our Solar System, we would have no problem calling it a “rogue planet.”
So why do we stop calling it a planet because it’s in our Solar System? Perhaps we need a better word that encompasses all the artificial categories we created. Something that includes rocky planets, large moons, gas giants, dwarf planets, rogue planets, large Kuiper belt objects, large asteroids, and so on.
Why don’t we just call them what they are: worlds."
Honestly, skimmed most of this article. Actually couldn't tell you whether or not I would recommend anything above these sentences. But these sentences are great.
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