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minus-squareIAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoit’s fine to place arbitrary separations in a spectrum as long as we are aware it’s a spectrum. but it’s also annoying that “dwarf” implies smaller, and as I said before, we could have gas giants that could be classified as a dwarf planets. and without a doubt there are exoplanets that are gas giants but also dwarf. which is just plain stupid.
it’s fine to place arbitrary separations in a spectrum as long as we are aware it’s a spectrum.
but it’s also annoying that “dwarf” implies smaller, and as I said before, we could have gas giants that could be classified as a dwarf planets.
and without a doubt there are exoplanets that are gas giants but also dwarf.
which is just plain stupid.