Main planets, Belt planets, Moon planets etc

== Main planets, Belt planets, Moon planets etc ==

I think wikipedia should use adjectives to distinguish different types
of planets:

'''Planet''' (massive enough to be round, not so massive as to have
fusion)

'''Main planet''' (orbiting roughly in ecliptic plane, not part of a
belt):
*Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

'''Belt planet''' (orbiting within a belt):
*Ceres, Pluto-Charon etc

'''Scattered planet''' (scattered):
*Eris etc

'''Moon planet''' (orbiting another planet):
*The Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Dione, Ariel,
Umbriel, Triton etc

'''Floating planet''' (orbiting the galaxy itself rather than another
object).

This is a lot simpler than IAU's recent technical definition. The word
planet on its own would usually refer to a Main planet but this would
depend on the context. Moon planets would still be referred to as
moons most of the time.

How do you expect to simplify the definitions by adding new ones?

Yousuf Khan

wrote:
== Main planets, Belt planets, Moon planets etc ==

I think wikipedia should use adjectives to distinguish different types
of planets:

'''Planet''' (massive enough to be round, not so massive as to have
fusion)

'''Main planet''' (orbiting roughly in ecliptic plane, not part of a
belt):
*Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

'''Belt planet''' (orbiting within a belt):
*Ceres, Pluto-Charon etc

'''Scattered planet''' (scattered):
*Eris etc

'''Moon planet''' (orbiting another planet):
*The Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Dione, Ariel,
Umbriel, Triton etc

'''Floating planet''' (orbiting the galaxy itself rather than another
object).

This is a lot simpler than IAU's recent technical definition. The word
planet on its own would usually refer to a Main planet but this would
depend on the context. Moon planets would still be referred to as
moons most of the time.