• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Do the Trojan asteroid clusters in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points still count as “clearing its orbit”?

    What if there were a second planet-sized body there?

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      Do the Trojan asteroid clusters in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points still count as “clearing its orbit”?

      What if there were a second planet-sized body there?

      I would say in that example:

      • Jupiter is the dominant mass making it be the planet.
      • Anything in the Lagrangian points would not be planets specifically because anything in those points are there because of Jupiter and its orbit, not in spite of it.