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Periodic Table of Exoplanets
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Planetary Habitability Laboratory
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
A Thermal Planetary Habitability Classification for Exoplanets
A Mass Classification for both Solar and Extrasolar Planets
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Stern and Levison, "Regarding the criteria for planethood and proposed planetary classification schemes," Highlights of Astronomy 12 (2002)
Lineweaver, C. H. and Robles, J. A. (2006). Towards a Classification System of Terrestrial Planets
SpaceEngine Planet Classifications
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The following is a list of planet
A planet is a large, Hydrostatic equilibrium, rounded Astronomical object, astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets b ...
types by their mass
Mass is an Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, intrinsic property of a physical body, body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the physical quantity, quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physi ...
, orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an ...
, physical and chemical composition
A chemical composition specifies the identity, arrangement, and ratio of the chemical elements making up a compound by way of chemical and atomic bonds.
Chemical formulas can be used to describe the relative amounts of elements present in a com ...
, or by another classification.
By mass regime
By orbital regime
By composition
Other types
See also
* *Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be hydrostatic equilibrium, gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve clearing the neighbourhood, orbital dominance like the ...
* Minor planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...
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* Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their stellar spectrum, spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is analyzed by splitting it with a Prism (optics), prism or diffraction gratin ...
* Substellar object
A substellar object, sometimes called a substar, is an astronomical object, the mass of which is smaller than the smallest mass at which hydrogen fusion can be sustained (approximately 0.08 solar masses). This definition includes brown dwarfs and f ...
* Sudarsky's gas giant classification
Notes
References
External links
Periodic Table of Exoplanets
a
Planetary Habitability Laboratory
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
A Thermal Planetary Habitability Classification for Exoplanets
A Mass Classification for both Solar and Extrasolar Planets
at
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
Stern and Levison, "Regarding the criteria for planethood and proposed planetary classification schemes," Highlights of Astronomy 12 (2002)
Lineweaver, C. H. and Robles, J. A. (2006). Towards a Classification System of Terrestrial Planets
SpaceEngine Planet Classifications
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