Ploonet: A New Word in Scientific Community
‘Ploonet’ is the new word the scientific community has come up with to describe a moon that becomes a planet.
Key Features
- A moon can become a planet if it leaves the orbit of its parent planet and takes up residence in a stable orbit around its star.
- At this point, this orbiting rock is neither a moon nor a planet, hence the term, ploonet.
- This theory explains why astronomers have not been able to find moons that orbit other exoplanets that are gas giants, like Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn.
- This theory could explain other astronomical phenomena like why sometimes stars flicker and ....
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