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Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Do We Need to Go Back to the Old Classification of Dwarf Planets?

When series was discovered and subsequently vesta, in 18 o one and 18 o seven, they, along with two other bodies in the main asteroid belt, were described planets es. And there were only four of them known until the middle of the nineteenth century. Now pluto and ceres and other bodies are collectively described as dwarf planets. Do we need to? No, not at all. Because it's a matter of vocabulary. We could make intelligent choices of what the vocabulary, the terminology, should be, but there's no need to. The universe is the way it is. It doesn't matter you want the universe to be. Our job as scientists, engineers, explorers and commun

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