Citations:ploonet

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.