• zedgeist@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Why isn’t the most influential planet Jupiter? That’s the obvious answer. Saturn maybe second. Their gravity wells did more than any other planet to influence the other planets in the system…

    And wtf is Neptune doing in second place. Neptune doesn’t do shit.

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      4 days ago

      And wtf is Neptune doing in second place.

      Pluto and the Kuiper belt.

      Note that Saturn is relatively close to Jupiter, while Neptune is far from any other large planets. So while it is smaller, it dominates a much larger part of the solar system.