Pls Information about planemo?

Question

Please give me some information of planemo. I will be very glad if you could provide me some good websites with good pictures.

THX eribdy!

Answer 1

A Planemo is a term proposed to the IAU by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, to help clarify the nomenclature of celestial bodies. Under his definition a planemo would be "an object [rounded by self-gravity] that does not achieve core fusion during its lifetime", regardless of its orbit.

It is deliberately contrasted with Basri's suggested definition of planet ("a planemo that orbits a fusor") and was designed as a potential solution to the debate over what constitutes a planet. It can be considered helpful as it creates a designation for so-called "interstellar planets" that are otherwise not covered by suggested definitions for 'planet', and it also creates a category to group large, compositionally-similar moons with their planetary counterparts.

The term is a contraction of planetary mass object.

Answer 2

go to your search engine and put "planemo" for search.....u'll get many answers......I'll give you one that contains an image.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060605_planemos.html

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planemo

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/1077.php

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1656714.htm