As our stargazing capacities develop perpetually propelled, cosmologists have been finding more and more extrasolar planets.
Yet, there's a great deal of stuff whirling out in the Universe that falls some place in the middle of, and one astrophysicist is requiring a formal definition on what being a planet truly implies.
We comprehend what makes a planet inside the Solar System, halfway in light of the fact that poor Pluto got flicked from the club for not having cleared its way of circle around the Sun. According to the International Astronomical Union:
"A 'planet' is a heavenly body that (an) is in circle around the Sun, (b) has adequate mass for its self-gravity to defeat inflexible body powers with the goal that it expect a hydrostatic harmony (almost round) shape, and (c) has cleared the area around its circle."