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What makes a planet a planet?

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A planet is made a planet if it is circular or close to circular in shape, orbits the sun, and, if one planet crosses the path of another planet's orbit, the smaller of the two is no longer a planet. ghost busters

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Gravity pulling the bits of the solar nebular together.

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