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What characteristic sets the planets apart from the stars, Sun, and Moon?

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for a celestial body to be a planet of the solar system, it must meet three conditions: it must be in orbit around the Sun, have been molded by its own gravity into a round or nearly round shape, and have “cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit,

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