What does "It has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit and is not a moon." Meaning
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It has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit. “Cleared the neighborhood” means that the “planet” has to be the dominant gravitational body in their orbit around the sun. This means that the “planet” has to cruise its orbit while consuming or slinging away smaller objects in its orbital path.
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For the most part, they are identical, but there's one key difference: A dwarf planet hasn't "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit, which means it has not become gravitationally dominant and it shares its orbital space with other bodies of a similar size.
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