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a planet that did all the work but didn't clear its neighborhood, so no badge for you.

means a round object massive enough for gravity to make it spherical, orbiting the sun, but not dominant enough to have cleared its orbital path of other debris.

from coined by the IAU in 2006 when astronomers needed a polite label for pluto after demoting it, splitting the solar system into planets, dwarf planets, and everything else.

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