This table concerns those nine* Solar System bodies that until recently had all been labelled as planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
An ever growing list of planets around other stars can be found in The Extra-Solar Planets Catalog or California & Carnegie Planet Search.
Other classes of objects not considered major planets are found in the Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, and Oort cloud.
*Soon after its discovery in 1930, Pluto was classified a planet by the International Astronomical Union. However, based on additional discoveries since that time, some astronomers suggested Pluto that should be classified as a Kuiper belt object. In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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