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pluto's revenge club: big enough to be round, too weak to clear its lane.

means a celestial body that orbits the sun and is massive enough to be spherical but hasn't gravitationally dominated its orbital neighborhood.

from coined in 2006 when the international astronomical union needed a category for pluto after new telescopes revealed a swarm of similar icy bodies in the kuiper belt, so instead of promoting them all to planets, they demoted pluto.

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