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/

    • _____@lemm.ee
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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