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Originally Posted by Chimaera182  I'm really with Masa on this one. Pluto could be classified as a sun or a neutron star or a black hole, it doesn't change anything. People really don't need to be focusing so much on the outside when they should really be focusing within. 
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Well neither does defining a tree as a tree instead of a fish, yet we define every single aspect of existance we can, and lable it to create a common ground of understanding and communication.
As for what actual effect this will give - if any - is hard to predict, but currently I think the consequences are rather limitied, yet it is about the same to me as when they named a tree a tree.
I do however from a person interested in space and such find it interesting and fascinating that we now only have 8 planets in our solar system, as I would have if we suddenly had 12. (I'm more happy with 8 then 12, but mostly because it is easier to remember the names of the 8 then of the 12
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