Planets/Quiz
Planets is a lecture and an article. Planetary science is a field within astronomy that focuses on spheroidal, substellar astronomical objects apparently in an orbit around a star.
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Quiz
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Hypotheses
edit- Planets are only those substellar astronomical objects in revolution around one or more stars.
See also
editExternal links
edit- International Astronomical Union
- NASA's National Space Science Data Center
- The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System