Pluto is going to be fucking heated, yo. Not

only has it been demoted to a dwarf planet, but now there’s talk of an asteroid being a planet. An asteroid! A fucking asteroid.

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Straight-up: I don’t know the definition of a protoplanet, but people who do aren’t sure if the largest asteroid we’ve visited happens to be one.

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Check out Vesta. Big son of a bitch asteroid. It’s got one of the most impressive cliffs in this little quaint solar system, and its majesty was recently captured by the robotic Dawn spacecraft.

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