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rogue planet
Sign in to saveAlso known as free floating planet, free-floating planet, interstellar planet, interstellar planetary mass object, orphan planet, wandering planet, nomad planet, planetary nomad
planetary-mass object that orbits the galaxy directly
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- interstellar object
- Image
- Alone in Space - Astronomers Find New Kind of Planet.jpg
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- Commons category
- Free-floating planets
- topic's main category
- Category:Rogue planets
- different from
- free object
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Encyclopedic overview
This video shows an artist's impression of the free-floating planet (or brown dwarf) CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9.
A rogue planet, also termed a free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rogue planet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.