Pluto is still pissed off about its downgrade.
Does this now make it a Senior Planet like it used to be?
Pluto is still pissed off about its downgrade.
How would you like to be replaced by babbling Daffy duck and his cousins?
They could go back to the ancient meaning of planet as a bright object that wanders in the sky (compared to the "fixed" stars). Of course the ancients had 7 planets but we would have to leave out the sun and the moon, so there would be 5 (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). "Bright objects which reflect light from the sun and move in a regular fashion compared to the stars." Maybe there would be a way to work the earth into the definition.
The rest--Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the asteroids, the Kuiper Belt objects, the comets, could be "solar satellites." Smaller objects orbiting a planet or a solar satellite could be called a "planetary parasite" or a "solar satellite parasite."