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He's mixed up the first two diagrams - Pluto should be coloured in for the first and not for the second.
He fixed it. They're swapped now.
This is really really frustrating to me, very unlike Randal.
What's worse is he's got Neptune's moon highlighted in the first row
Ultratraditionalist is messed up too. The sun and moon were considered planets when geocentrism was king.
It comes from the fact that the word planet comes from the Greek and means wanderer. Any celestial body that wandered around compared to the stars was considered a planet.
The judgemental one has 7 coloured instead of 6 too.
Good catch - he's updated the graphic but this is still wrong.