Citations:ploonet

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English citations of ploonet

  • 2019 July 4, Chelsea Whyte, “Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'”, in New Scientist Magazine[1]:
    According to a new study, that could be because these exomoons have been ejected from orbit around their home planet and turned into miniature planets called “ploonets”.
  • 2019, David Grossman, Popular Mechanics Magazine, "They're Not Moons. They're Not Planets. They're Ploonets."
    To understand a ploonet, you must first understand moons outside Earth's solar system.
  • 2019, Ian Randall, Daily Mail, "Scientists coin the term 'ploonets' for bizarre hybrid worlds created when a moon becomes a planet"
    Such exomoons — moons in other star systems — have around a 50 per cent chance of becoming a ploonet, else they get ejected into space or collide with their planet.
  • 2019, Sean Keach, The Sun, "Scientists reveal ‘ploonets’ as NEW type of space object – and say the Moon could turn into one"
    But while ploonets sound quite lovely, they're largely doomed.