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Originally Posted by antoniseb
But, since the term is not experiencing any threat of ambiguous usage, there's no need to change it, and it probably won't change.
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Yeah, but their nomenclature (mistaken as it may be) is a testimony of a simpler approach to the facts: orbits a star --> is a planet(*).
(*) Herschel had the Greek tradition in mind when he first classified those objects.