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Hugo a Gogo said:
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the wiki page for exoplanets has this note:
"This definition is drawn from two separate IAU declarations; a formal definition agreed by the IAU in 2006, and an informal working definition established by the IAU in 2001/2003 for objects outside of the Solar System. The official 2006 definition applies only to the Solar System, whereas the 2003 definition applies to planets around other stars. The extrasolar planet issue was deemed too complex to resolve at the 2006 IAU conference."
Edited to say, good IAU findthe wiki page for exoplanets has this note:
"This definition is drawn from two separate IAU declarations; a formal definition agreed by the IAU in 2006, and an informal working definition established by the IAU in 2001/2003 for objects outside of the Solar System. The official 2006 definition applies only to the Solar System, whereas the 2003 definition applies to planets around other stars. The extrasolar planet issue was deemed too complex to resolve at the 2006 IAU conference."
Hugo I thing that it goes to show how difficult it is to get agreement and a definition, I think that I would accept the current term of it being a plant given the astronomers who found it ( id be a brave man to sit a room and tell them they have it wrong), however that doesn't mean I am fixated by that term and could indeed have another label (for example dud star) in the future with more research and agreement.
indeed but you never know where those triffids will come from. 
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