Under the ‘has cleared its orbital neighborhood’ and ‘fuses hydrogen into helium’ definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

https://explainxkcd.com/3063/

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    1 day ago

    what is the name for things in orbits that aren’t asteroids ?

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      11 hours ago

      Satellite.

      Can also be broken down to natural and artificial satellites, but natural has extra requirements than just being naturally occurring.

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        12 hours ago

        I mean including things like planets, an umbrella term that planets are always on

        it doesn’t sound to me like you could just say a planet is debris although I do think the formation of the moon could technically be space debris so maybe other larger celestial objects may have originated as such

        I’m a computer person. not a space or physics person so forgive my lack of correct terminology