Planet used to include The Moon and The Sun.
Time to saw off and create a new term to cover whatever it is that the govt funded navel gazers are using to get grants to fund their programs.
I’m suRprised that this issue Is not heavily linked to CAGW....
In the ancient Greek world, and the dark age one, there were five classes of objects in the universe. They were the Earth, the moon, the planets, the sun, and the stars. And there were five planets. Things like comets and meteors were pretty much temporary things appearing only as signs—basically the gods sending coded messages for any who could interpret them. “Planet” meant an entirely different thing then as now. It wasn’t until the 16h century that the idea of Earth being just another planet began to take hold.