Barhandar 
"[@UrbanMysticDee":](/forums/dis/topics/useless-facts?post_id=23567#post_23567
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> If Earth were nudged into a weird orbit or thrown into interstellar space by a passing star it would all of a sudden stop being a planet because it's no longer within the plane of the ecliptic.[/bq]
Read again - it would become exo/rogue planet respectively, because "planet" is about how it would be in standardized conditions (like, you know, all scientific definitions that weren't made by stupid people manipulating votes), it's the modifiers that depend on actual conditions. Like how hydrogen doesn't stop being nonmetallic because metallic hydrogen exists in certain conditions.
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> If Earth were nudged into a weird orbit or thrown into interstellar space by a passing star it would all of a sudden stop being a planet because it's no longer within the plane of the ecliptic.
Read again - it would become exo/rogue planet respectively, because "planet" is about how it would be in standardized conditions (like, you know, all scientific definitions that weren't made by stupid people manipulating votes), it's the modifiers that depend on actual conditions. Like how hydrogen doesn't stop being nonmetallic because metallic hydrogen exists in certain conditions.