I was driving home from dinner with the parents when suddenly it hit me: I don’t know how many planets there are!
The IAU met to decide on it a few months ago, but the rule they settled on was not the rule everybody thought they’d settle on. I can’t remember what they decided, so I have no clue how many planets there are.
I think that means I get to make up my own rules. I’m going to go with eleven: The eight non-controversial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). I’ll add Pluto (you haters can kiss my ass), plus the slightly bigger new one that its discoverer calls Xena (the IAU wants to call it something else, but I say if they want to name a planet they should get off their asses and find one of their own), plus Ceres because it’s big and round too. I’m not counting Charon no matter what they say. It’s still just Pluto’s moon.
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