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2011 HM_102_: discovery of a high-inclination L5 Neptune Trojan in the search for a Post-Pluto new horizons target

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

9969 Braille: Deep Space 1 infrared spectroscopy, geometric albedo, and classification

scholarly article by B.J. Buratti et al published January 2004 in Icarus

A Consensus Crater Catalog of Pluto, Charon, and Nix

conference paper published in 2016

A Pristine “Contact Binary” in the Kuiper Belt: Implications from the New Horizons Encounter with 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”)

conference paper published in 2019

A giant impact origin for Pluto's small moons and satellite multiplicity in the Kuiper belt

scientific article

A map of a collisionally evolving dust disk around Fomalhaut

scientific article published in Nature

A reinterpretation of millimeter observations of nearby IRAS excess stars

scientific article published in January 1994

A search for Vulcanoids with the STEREO Heliospheric Imager

scientific article (publication date: March 2013)

A search for satellites around ceres

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A search for temporal changes on Pluto and Charon

scientific article

Accretion in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt: forming 100-1000 km radius bodies at 30 AU and beyond

scientific article published in January 1997

Alice: The rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

Alice—An ultraviolet imaging spectrometer for the Rosetta Orbiter

Alpha Piscis Austrini

An investigation into potential causes of the anomalistic feature observed by the Rosetta Alice spectrograph around 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

An upper bound on Pluto's heat flux from a lack of flexural response of its normal faults

scientific article

An upper limit on Pluto’s ionosphere from radio occultation measurements with New Horizons

scientific article

Analysis of the First Disk-resolved Images of Ceres from Ultraviolet Observations with the [ITAL]Hubble Space Telescope[/ITAL]

scientific article (publication date: 2002)

Are Maryland and Other Craters on CCKBO Arrokoth Compaction Craters, and Does it Matter?

conference paper published in 2021

Basins, fractures and volcanoes: Global cartography and topography of Pluto from New Horizons

article

Bladed Terrain on Pluto: Possible origins and evolution

article by Jeffrey M. Moore et al published January 2018 in Icarus

Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto's mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons

article

Cartography at the Edge of the Solar System

conference paper published in 2016

Ceres: High-resolution imaging with HST and the determination of physical properties

Changing characteristics of jupiter's little red spot

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Chaos Terrains on Pluto, Europa, and Mars — Morphological Comparison of Blocks

conference paper published in 2019

Chaos Terrains on Pluto, Europa, and Mars: Insights to Crustal Lithology and Structure

conference paper published in 2021

Charon tectonics

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Charon's Smooth Plains

conference paper published in 2018

Chasing New Horizons

Chiron and the Centaurs: escapees from the Kuiper belt

scientific article published in Nature

Chiron illuminated

scientific article published in Nature

Climate zones on Pluto and Charon

scholarly article

Clump detections and limits on moons in Jupiter's ring system

scientific article

Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97) Astronomer who discovered the Solar System's ninth planet

scientific article published in Nature

Collisional Erosion in the Primordial Edgeworth‐Kuiper Belt and the Generation of the 30–50 AU Kuiper Gap

scientific article

Collisional time scales in the Kuiper disk and their implications

scientific article published in January 1995

Collisions in the Oort cloud

Collisions with Small Classical Kuiper Belt Objects are Not Sufficient to Cause Substantial Spin Changes to Arrokoth

conference paper published in 2021

Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) near 2.3 AU postperihelion: southwest ultraviolet imaging system measurements of the H_2_O and dust production

scientific article

Commercial space flight is a game-changer

scientific article published on April 25, 2012

Comparing (486958) 2014 MU69 to Cometary Nuclei: Shapes and Surfaces

conference paper published in 2019

Constraining the IMF at Pluto Using New Horizons SWAP Data and Hybrid Simulations

scientific article

Constraining the final merger of contact binary (486958) Arrokoth with soft-sphere discrete element simulations

Constraints on the microphysics of Pluto's photochemical haze from New Horizons observations

article

Contributions of solar wind and micrometeoroids to molecular hydrogen in the lunar exosphere

article by Dana M. Hurley et al published February 2017 in Icarus

Convection in Sputnik Planitia, Pluto: Depth of the N2 Ice Layer and Possible Presence of Basal N2 Melt

conference paper published in 2017

Convection in a volatile nitrogen-ice-rich layer drives Pluto's geological vigour

scientific article

Corrigendum: Convection in a volatile nitrogen-ice-rich layer drives Pluto's geological vigour.

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

Crater Morphology on 2014 MU69 — Predictions for New Horizons High Resolution Imaging

conference paper published in 2019

Craters of the Pluto-Charon system

article

Craters on Pluto and Charon — Surface Ages and Impactor Populations

conference paper published in 2016

Cryovolcanism on Pluto

conference paper published in 2019

Cryovolcanism on Pluto from the New Horizons Flyby

conference paper published in 2018

Delayed gratification habitable zones: when deep outer solar system regions become balmy during post-main sequence stellar evolution

scientific article published in January 2003

Deriving an Ultima Thule Digital Shape Kernel

conference paper published in 2019

Detection of Radio Thermal Emission from the Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth during the New Horizons Encounter

scientific article published in 2022

Detection of ammonia on Pluto's surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Determining the Alpha to Proton Density Ratio for the New Horizons Solar Wind Observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Differentiation of the asteroid Ceres as revealed by its shape

scientific article

Discovery of an aurora on Mars

scientific article

Disk-resolved Photometric Properties of Pluto and the Coloring Materials across its Surface

scholarly article

Diverse plasma populations and structures in Jupiter's magnetotail

scientific article

Dunes on Pluto

scientific article published in Science

Ejecta exchange and satellite color evolution in the Pluto system, with implications for KBOs and asteroids with satellites

scholarly article

Engaging new scientific horizons

scientific article published on 09 July 2015

Erratum: A map of a collisionally evolving dust disk around Fomalhaut

scientific article published in Nature

Evidence for Possible Clouds in Pluto’s Present-day Atmosphere

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Evidence for a collisional mechanism affecting Kuiper belt object colors

scientific article

Examining Scenarios for Glacial Flow of Volatile Ices onto Pluto's Sputnik Planum

conference paper published in 2016

FUV spectral signatures of molecules and the evolution of the gaseous coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published in January 2018

Far-UV phase dependence and surface characteristics of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as observed with Rosetta Alice

scientific article

Far-ultraviolet reflectance properties of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions

scholarly article

First Constraints on Rings in the Pluto System

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

First ultraviolet reflectance measurements of several Kuiper Belt objects, Kuiper Belt object satellites, and new ultraviolet measurements of a Centaur

scientific article published in January 2014

First ultraviolet reflectance spectra of Pluto and Charon by the Hubble space telescope cosmic origins spectrograph: detection of absorption features and evidence for temporal change

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Generating a 3D Shape Model of 2014 MU69 for Scientific Visualization and Public Outreach

conference paper published in 2019

Geologic Landforms and Chronostratigraphic History of Charon as Revealed by a Hemispheric Geologic Map

scientific article published in January 2019

Geologic Map of New Horizons' Encounter Hemisphere of Charon

conference paper published in 2016

Geologic Map of New Horizons' Encounter Hemisphere of Charon, III

conference paper published in 2017

Geologic Map of New Horizons' Encounter Hemisphere of Charon, IV

conference paper published in 2018

Geologic Map of New Horizons' Encounter Hemisphere of Charon, V

conference paper published in 2018

Geological Mapping of Pluto and Charon Using New Horizons Data

journal article from 'ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences' published in 2016

Geological mapping of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

scientific article

Geology before Pluto: Pre-encounter considerations

article

Geology of Vulcan Planum, Charon

conference paper published in 2017

Global albedos of Pluto and Charon from LORRI New Horizons observations

Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter With Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”)

article

HD 98800

scholarly article

HST mid-ultraviolet spectroscopy of comet 46P/Wirtanen during its approach to perihelion in 1996-1997

scientific article published in January 1998

Have Stellar Occultations Probed Charon's Chasmata?

conference paper published in 2016

Haze in Pluto's atmosphere

article

High-precision orbit fitting and uncertainty analysis of (486958) 2014 MU69

scientific article published in January 2018

Highly Localized Seasonal Cold-Trapping in the Neck of 2014 MU69 'Ultima Thule'

conference paper published in 2019

Hubble space telescope STIS observations of comet 19P/Borrelly during theDeep space 1 encounter

scientific article

Ices on Charon: Distribution of H2O and NH3 from New Horizons LEISA observations

scientific article published in January 2018

Impact Craters on 2014 MU69: Implications for the Geologic History of MU69 and Kuiper Belt Population Size-Frequency Distributions

conference paper published in 2019

Impact Craters on Pluto: Size-Frequency Distributions, Morphologies, Terrain Ages

conference paper published in 2019

Impact Origin of Sputnik Planitia Basin, Pluto

conference paper published in 2017

Impact craters on Pluto and Charon indicate a deficit of small Kuiper belt objects

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Implications regarding the energetics of the collisional formation of Kuiper belt satellites

scholarly article

Inflight radiometric calibration of New Horizons’ Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)

scientific article

Influence of Solar Disturbances on Galactic Cosmic Rays in the Solar Wind, Heliosheath, and Local Interstellar Medium: Advanced Composition Explorer, New Horizons, and Voyager Observations

scientific article

Infrared Kuiper belt constraints

scientific article published in January 1999

Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object

article

Interplanetary magnetic field sector from solar wind around Pluto (SWAP) measurements of heavy ion pickup near Pluto

scholarly article

Interstellar pickup ion observations to 38 au

scientific article published in January 2017

Investigation of Charon's Craters With Abrupt Terminus Ejecta, Comparisons With Other Icy Bodies, and Formation Implications

scholarly article

In Situ Observations of Preferential Pickup Ion Heating at an Interplanetary Shock

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Io volcanism seen by new horizons: a major eruption of the Tvashtar volcano

scientific article

Io's atmospheric response to eclipse: UV aurorae observations

scientific article

Journey to the farthest planet.

scientific article published on May 2002

Jupiter's nightside airglow and aurora

scientific article published on October 2007

Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69: Correlation Between Albedo and Landforms

conference paper published in 2019

LRO-LAMP observations of the LCROSS impact plume.

scientific article published on October 2010

Landslides in the Serenity Chasma Region, Charon

conference paper published in 2018

Landslides on Charon

scholarly article

Limb Topography of 2014 MU69: First Results from the New Horizons Flyby

conference paper published in 2019

Low-cost airborne astronomy imager to begin research phase

scholarly article by Alan Stern et al published 7 March 2000 in Eos

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Overview: The Instrument Suite and Mission

article by Gordon Chin et al published 4 May 2007 in Space Science Reviews

Lunar swirls: Far-UV characteristics

article by Amanda Hendrix et al published July 2016 in Icarus

Maps of HCO+ emission in C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp)

Mean radius and shape of Pluto and Charon from New Horizons images

scholarly article

Measurements of the near-nucleus coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph on Rosetta

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Merger and Spindown of (486958) Arrokoth by Collisions

conference paper published in 2020

Methane distribution on Pluto as mapped by the New Horizons Ralph/MVIC instrument

scientific article

Modeling glacial flow on and onto Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia

journal article published 2017

Modeling of the vapor release from the LCROSS impact: 2. Observations from LAMP

scholarly article

Moons are planets: Scientific usefulness versus cultural teleology in the taxonomy of planetary science

scholarly article published on Mar 2022

Morphological comparison of blocks in chaos terrains on Pluto, Europa, and Mars

scientific article published in March 2021

New Constraints on Additional Satellites of the Pluto System

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2006)

New Horizons Alice ultraviolet observations of a stellar occultation by Jupiter’s atmosphere

scientific article

New Horizons Cruise and Approach Phase 1 Photometry for Pluto and a Solar Phase Curve

conference paper published in 2015

New Horizons Upper Limits on O2 in Pluto’s Present Day Atmosphere

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter Observes Higher than Expected Fluxes Approaching 60 au

scholarly article

New Horizons constraints on Charon's present day atmosphere

article

New Horizons photometry of Pluto's moon Charon

scientific article published in January 2019

New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System

article

New horizons mapping of Europa and Ganymede

scientific article

New satellite of (134340) Pluto: S/2011 (134340) 1

scientific article published in January 2011

New satellite of (134340) Pluto: S/2011 (134340) 1

scholarly article

Nightglow in the upper atmosphere of Mars and implications for atmospheric transport

scientific article published on January 2005

On the Size Dependence of the Inclination Distribution of the Main Kuiper Belt

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

On the collisional environment, accretion time scales, and architecture of the massive, primordial Kuiper Belt

scientific article published in January 1996

On the possible noble gas deficiency of Pluto’s atmosphere

On the provenance of Pluto's nitrogen (N_2_)

scientific article

Orbits and Photometry of Pluto's Satellites: Charon, S/2005 P1, and S/2005 P2

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2006)

Origins of pits and troughs and degradation on a small primitive planetesimal in the Kuiper Belt: high-resolution topography of (486958) Arrokoth (aka 2014 MU69) from New Horizons

scientific article published in March 2021

Phase Curves of Nix and Hydra from the New Horizons Imaging Cameras

Photometric Properties of Pluto

conference paper published in 2016

Photometric analysis of 1 Ceres and surface mapping from HST observations

article

Physical state and distribution of materials at the surface of Pluto from New Horizons LEISA imaging spectrometer

scientific article published in May 2017

Pluto Revealed

scientific article published in November 2017

Pluto and Charon with the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Monitoring global change and improved surface properties from light curves

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Pluto and Charon with the Hubble Space Telescope. II. Resolving changes on Pluto's surface and a map for Charon

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Pluto is again a harbinger

scientific article published on December 9, 2010

Pluto's Far Side

scientific article published in March 2021

Pluto's Interaction With Energetic Heliospheric Ions

scholarly article

Pluto's Sputnik Planitia: Composition of geological units from infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published in May 2021

Pluto's haze as a surface material

scientific article published in November 2018

Pluto's interaction with its space environment: Solar wind, energetic particles, and dust

scientific article

Pluto's interaction with the solar wind

scientific article

Pluto: Pits and mantles on uplands north and east of Sputnik Planitia

scholarly article

Pluto’s Haze Abundance and Size Distribution from Limb Scatter Observations by MVIC

scholarly article

Pluto’s Heat Flow: A Mystery Wrapped in an Ocean Inside an Ice Shell

conference paper published in 2018

Poised for Pluto

scientific article published in July 2015

Polar lightning and decadal-scale cloud variability on Jupiter

scientific article

Post-Perihelion HST Observations of Comet Hale–Bopp (C/1995 O1)

Potential Mapping Schemes and Reference Systems for MU69

conference paper published in 2019

Prebiotic Chemistry of Pluto

scientific article published on 23 March 2019

Present and past glaciation on Pluto

journal article

Probing the Hill sphere of (486958) 2014 MU_69_: HST FGS observations during the 2017 July 17 stellar occultation

scientific article published in January 2018

Radio occultation measurements of Pluto’s neutral atmosphere with New Horizons

scientific article

Recent cryovolcanism in Virgil Fossae on Pluto

article

Regarding the Accretion of 2003 VB12(Sedna) and Like Bodies in Distant Heliocentric Orbits

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Regarding the Criteria for Planethood and Proposed Planetary Classification Schemes

Regarding the putative eccentricity of Charon's orbit

scientific article published in January 2003

Reorientation of Sputnik Planitia implies a subsurface ocean on Pluto

scientific article

Return to the Kuiper Belt: Launch Opportunities from 2025 to 2040

Rosetta Alice/VIRTIS observations of the water vapour UV electroglow emissions around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

scientific article

S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2

scientific article published in January 2005

S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2

S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2

scientific article published in January 2006

SWUIS-A: a versatile low-cost UV/VIS/IR imaging system for airborne astronomy and aeronomy research

scholarly article published 29 November 2000

Scarp Retreat on (486958) Arrokoth: Evidence and Implications for Composition and Structure

conference paper published in 2020

Signatures of collisions in the Kuiper Disk

scientific article

Size and Shape Constraints of (486958) Arrokoth from Stellar Occultations

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Space, science and the bottom line. Alan Stern interviewed by Alexandra Witze

scientific article published in August 2007

Stellar Occultation by Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko Observed with Rosetta's Alice Far-ultraviolet Spectrograph

Sublimation as a Landform-Shaping Process on Pluto

conference paper published in 2016

Sublimation as a landform-shaping process on Pluto

article

Suprathermal Ions in the Outer Heliosphere

article

Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon

scientific article

TOI-2257 b: A highly eccentric long-period sub-Neptune transiting a nearby M dwarf

scientific article published in January 2022

Tectonics of Charon

conference paper published in 2016

The 2016 Feb 19 outburst of comet 67P/CG: an ESA Rosetta multi-instrument study

scientific article

The 3rd zone : exploring the Kuiper Belt

scientific article published in January 2003

The 825-1110 angstroms EUV spectrum of Venus

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

The CH4 cycles on Pluto over seasonal and astronomical timescales

The Calibration of the [ITAL]Hubble Space Telescope[/ITAL] Kuiper Belt Object Search:Setting the Record Straight

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Discovery of Argon in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Discovery of Halley-sized Kuiper Belt Objects Using the Hubble Space Telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Edison Infrared Space Observatory and the study of extra-solar planetary material

scientific article published in January 1994

The Far Side of Charon

conference paper published in 2020

The Geology of 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”): Initial Results from The New Horizons Encounter

conference paper published in 2019

The Geology of Pluto

conference paper published in 2019

The Geophysical Environment of (486958) Arrokoth

conference paper published in 2020

The Global Color of Pluto from New Horizons

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Low-Cost Ticket to Space

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

The Lyman-α Sky Background as Observed by New Horizons

article

The New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission

The New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Mission: An Overview with Historical Context

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 2008)

The New Horizons Spacecraft

article

The Pluto System After New Horizons

article

The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2015)

The Pluto-Charon System Revealed: Geophysics, Activity, and Origins

conference paper published in 2016

The Pluto-Charon Systems

The Pluto-Charon system

scientific article published in January 1992

The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons

scientific article

The carbon monoxide abundance in comet 103P/Hartley 2 during the EPOXI flyby

The cosmic origins spectrograph

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The discovery of a beta Pic-like disk around the nearby star Formalhaut (alpha PsA)

scholarly article

The effects of dust outbursts on the anomalistic features observed by Rosetta Alice around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The evolution of comets and the detectability of extra-solar Oort Clouds

Doctoral dissertation of Alan Stern

The first high-phase observations of a KBO: New Horizons imaging of (15810) 1994 JR_1_ from the Kuiper Belt

scientific article (publication date: September 2016)

The formation of Charon's red poles from seasonally cold-trapped volatiles

scientific article

The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

journal article

The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons

scientific article

The heliocentric evolution of key species in the distantly-active comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

scientific article published in January 1997

The influence of supernovae and passing stars on comets in the Oort cloud

scientific article published in Nature

The lunar atmosphere: History, status, current problems, and context

scientific article (publication date: November 1999)

The nature and frequency of the gas outbursts in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observed by the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph on Rosetta

scientific article

The nature and origin of Charon's smooth plains

journal article

The photochemistry of Pluto's atmosphere as illuminated by New Horizons

article

The puzzling detection of x-rays from Pluto by Chandra

The rapid formation of Sputnik Planitia early in Pluto's history

scientific article

The reclassification of asteroids from planets to non-planets

The shape and surface variation of 2 Pallas from the Hubble Space Telescope

scientific article

The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons

scientific article

The spectroscopic detectability of argon in the lunar atmosphere

scientific article published in January 1998

The surface compositions of Pluto and Charon

article

Thermal Convection in Solid Nitrogen, and the Depth and Surface Age of Cellular Terrain Within Sputnik Planum, Pluto

conference paper published in 2016

Topographic Mapping of Pluto and Charon Using New Horizons Data

journal article from 'ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences' published in 2016

Topography of Pluto and Charon: Impact Cratering

conference paper published in 2016

Topography of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) at Local Scales: Surface Evolution of a Small Primitive Body

conference paper published in 2019

Toward a planet paradigm

scholarly article

Triton's surface age and impactor population revisited in light of Kuiper belt fluxes: evidence for small Kuiper belt objects and recent geological activity

scientific article published in January 2000

Ultraviolet and visible photometry of asteroid (21) Lutetia using the Hubble space telescope

scientific article published in January 2010

Ultraviolet discoveries at asteroid (21) lutetia by the rosetta alice ultraviolet spectrograph

scientific article published in January 2011

Ultraviolet observations of Triton in 1999 with the space telescope imaging spectrograph: 2150-3180 {AA} spectroscopy and disk-integrated photometry

scientific article published in January 2001

Ultraviolet observations of coronal mass ejection impact on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta Alice

scientific article published in January 2018

Update on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: The Instrument Suite and Mission

conference paper published in 2007

Using Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) for Science and Outreach on Missions: New Horizons' Encounter with the Pluto-Charon System and (486958) 2014 MU69

conference paper published in 2019

Viewing NASA's Mars budget with resignation

scientific article

Vulcan Planitia, Type Example of Outer Solar System Ammonia-Water Cryovolcanism

conference paper published in 2018

Washboard and Fluted Terrain on Pluto: Evidence for Past Expanded Glaciation

conference paper published in 2018

Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation

conference paper published in 2019

Washboard and fluted terrains on Pluto as evidence for ancient glaciation

journal article

Working Group on Definition of Planet