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If a planet needs to ‘clear the neighborhood’ around its orbit to be considered a planet, could a potentially Jupiter sized mass object be considered a ‘non-planet’ of it still has objects of comparable size around its own orbit? Does size alone not justify a planet being a planet in that case?

by /u/A_HECKIN_DOGGO in /r/askscience

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