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Katherine de Kleer

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1. “So, I get asked this all the time. I think all planetary scientists get asked about Pluto, especially by kids who we just love for Pluto to still be a planet. But the reality is when we first discovered Pluto, it was a unique object in the outer solar system. And we thought, you know, we were adding a planet to the inventory of planets that we had. And then over time, it became clear that Pluto was not a unique large object in the outer solar system that there were actually many of these. And as we started discovering more and more of them, we realized that the concept of Pluto being a planet. Didn't make sense unless maybe we added all the rest of them as planets. So, you know, you could have imagined actually a”

   2021-05-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source