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What even is a Planet?

Huh? Science Explained

Show Notes

🪐 We all remember when Pluto was infamously demoted from being considered a 'planet'. But, what even is a planet? And if the definition keeps changing, will there be more planets in the future?

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👨‍🔬 Evrim Yazgin is a Cosmos journalist with a Masters in Physics from the University of Melbourne. His love of science fiction has spurred an interest in all things flux capacitor to quantum-time-antimatter-inverters. See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

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