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Anton Petrov — First Ever Planet That Shares an Orbit With Another Planet (www.youtube.com)
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[–] StarManta 1 points 1 year ago

That like saying the first ever odd number to end in a 2. The reason there hasn’t been one before is that, by definition, there can’t be. A planet clears its orbit of other bodies of significant mass.

Those are dwarf planets if they share an orbit.