Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 20th Century History 21st Century History (thelemmy.club)
 
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No, our scientific understanding evolved, and a classification of something changed. It's really not any deeper than that.

Happens constantly in science. Kind of one of its defining features actually

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