Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.1317s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #13.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.1295
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A planet is an end product of disk accretion around a primary star or substar. This definition is quantifiable by the degree to which a body dominates the other masses that share its orbital zone. Theoretical and observational measures of dynamical dominance reveal gaps of four to five orders of magnitude separating the eight planets of our solar system from the swarms of asteroids, comets, and KBOs the debris leftover from the formation of planets. The proposed definition dispenses with upper and lower mass limits for a planet. It reflects the tendency of disk evolution in a mature system to produce a small number of relatively large bodies (planets) in non-intersecting or resonant orbits, which prevent collisions between them.
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