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The headline says "delete" not "correct" or "replace". Blame clickbait.
by rendaw 2y ago
The headline says "delete" not "correct" or "replace". Blame clickbait.
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- chomp 2y agoNeither of your suggestions are accurate. The headline is accurate.
- hinkley 2y agoGiven overwhelming recent experience, I highly doubt it. I think I didn’t have gray hair the last time a title was more accurate than the story.
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- tga_d 2y agoIt's not that the headline is "more accurate" than the story, it's that the headline is accurate and reflects the content of the article. If you look at the second paragraph of the article, as well as the source it provides[0], they all agree the "asteroid" was deleted from records: "EDITORIAL NOTICE: DELETION OF 2018 CN41". It was not reclassified or corrected, it was deleted, because it was not an asteroid and so does not belong in the list of designated asteroids. It just also happens to already be tracked elsewhere. [0] https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25A49.html https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25A49.html
- rendaw 2y agoI'll bite, that sounds like a correction to me.
- tga_d 2y agoMaybe in the broadest sense, but it's certainly not more accurate to say that. If I hold a fiction writing competition, and you submit a piece of non-fiction that I throw in a paper shredder, I think most would agree that I would be misleading if I said I "corrected" your writing. "Deleted" would be a better description, regardless of whether the same work had been submitted elsewhere before.
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- juancampa 2y agoAgreed, if the title were "Astronomers reclassified asteroid..." there's barely any reason to click on it.
- addicted 2y agoThe headline correctly says they deleted an asteroid because it wasn’t an asteroid. That says nothing about whether or not they continued tracking the object as “not an asteroid”.