Personally I'd call anything that is large enough to rotate around the Sun is a planet. However, that causes "loads" of problems, orbits and mass etc.
If that criteria was used we'd have hundreds/thousands of planets and sooo many problems. The current criteria makes sense and should be used.
It matters not if an "object" in space is a planet, dwarf, asteroid or comet - it's nothing more than a "lump" of something orbiting the Sun.
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∙ 12y agolenpollock
A group of planets that orbit the Sun is collectively named The Solar System .
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∙ 12y agoSolar System (which is the planets AND the central star or sun)
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∙ 13y agoA solar system.
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∙ 12y agosolar system
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∙ 12y agoA solar system, or just a system.
yes, planets do orbit a star
planets
Moons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Some stars orbit other stars, or orbit their mutual center of gravity. Stars orbit the center of the galaxy. Galaxies may orbit the center of the "galactic group".
I am not familiar with planets evolving around any singular planet. If you are referring to orbit, the planets orbit the sun, a star, not a planet, in our solar system. Some planets have moons in their orbit.
Because planets orbit stars, they were called "planetai" (Greek) meaning wandering star.
yes, planets do orbit a star
galaxy
By definition planets orbit a star and satellites orbit a planet. Therefore there are no satellite planets.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Star planets." However, I can tell you that there are 8 known planets that orbit the star Sol, including Earth (Sol 3).
well for starters, stars don't orbit planets. Planets orbit stars, but some stars don't have planets that orbit them.
planets
Planets are bodies that orbit a central star (in our case, the Sun), and moons are smaller bodies that orbit planets.
When don't they? If a planet is in orbit around a star, it is in continual orbit. Orbital periods (the lengths of time it takes different planets to complete one orbit) are different from planet to planet, and are related to the distances between the planets and their stars.
When don't they? If a planet is in orbit around a star, it is in continual orbit. Orbital periods (the lengths of time it takes different planets to complete one orbit) are different from planet to planet, and are related to the distances between the planets and their stars.
The sun is a star. And planets within its gravitational reach orbit it.
Moons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Some stars orbit other stars, or orbit their mutual center of gravity. Stars orbit the center of the galaxy. Galaxies may orbit the center of the "galactic group".
All the planets in OUR solar system orbit around the sun(which is a star). Planets in other solar systems orbit around other stars.