"Clearing the neighbourhood" (or dynamical dominance) around a celestial body's orbit describes the body becoming gravitationally dominant such that there...

Brown notes, however, that were the "clearing the neighbourhood" criterion to be abandoned, the number of planets in the Solar System could rise from eight...

their orbits; this is part of the much more extensive process of clearing the neighbourhood, an effect that is used in the current definition of a planet...

accounted for to escape or stay in the sphere of influence. Hill sphere Sphere of influence (black hole) Clearing the neighbourhood Souami, D.; Cresson, J.; Biernacki...

90.19 AU from the Sun when the spacecraft arrives. Solar System portal Outer space portal Astronomy portal Clearing the neighbourhood Former classification...

be approximately 52 AU from the Sun when the spacecraft arrives. Astronomical naming conventions Clearing the neighbourhood International Astronomical...

conventions Clearing the neighbourhood International Astronomical Union Planets beyond Neptune List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun how-MAY-ə...

needed] Clearing the neighbourhood Future of Earth Global catastrophic risk Resonant trans-Neptunian object Laskar, J. (1994). "Large-scale chaos in the Solar...

we still have a sense of connection with the former planet". Clearing the neighbourhood Fusor (astronomy) Geophysical planet definition List of Solar...

classification that included both the concepts of hydrostatic equilibrium and clearing the neighbourhood used in the new definition, with a proposed classification...