[DannyTN]

"As Jupiter currently does. It emits more radiation than it receives from the Sun. None of it is in visible wavelengths though. Is Jupiter therefore a star?"

Yeah, I thought there was something like that about Jupiter. Under his definitions I think Jupiter is too big to be a planet. There will be ceaseless arguments about what size, what mass, what makeup constitutes a planet.

But it's the small end that really gets me. How do you know when a planet's gravity is stronger than it's material.

His definitions are about the worse I can imagine, and yet he thinks they are concise.

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Yeah, I thought there was something like that about Jupiter. Under his definitions I think Jupiter is too big to be a planet.

What if we call it a tiny brown dwarf star?