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 ....