English Explanatory Dictionary

ploonet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet.

Word forms

ploonet ploonets

Etymology

Blend of planet + moon. Coined in 2019 by the research team of Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone (see quotations below).

Related words

moonmoon brown subdwarf sub-brown dwarf rogue planet dwarf planet moonlet exomoon
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