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Originally Posted by renormalised
If you follow the IAU's "accepted" definition of what a planet is, then none of the "planets" of our Solar System can be called a planet. Not a single one of them, including Jupiter, has cleared its orbit of miscellaneous debris. What about all the Trojan asteroids, the NEO's, the Aten objects, the short period comets, the Centaur asteroids/comets etc etc etc.
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Is the actual wording 'cleared'? I thought I saw it once as 'dominated its orbit' which is different and would make them planets again.
Also, by rule #1 there can be no planets around other stars as they are not 'The Sun'. Or has this wording been misquoted also?