In 2006, important astronomers gathered in Prague, to solve a major issue of their science. What is a planet, and what it’s not?
They ended up with these 3 criteria.
1. It has to be in orbit around the Sun,
2. it has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (well, to have a nearly ...
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The "Clearing the neighbourhood" formula
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