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    11 hours ago

    Do the Trojan asteroid clusters in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points still count as “clearing its orbit”?

    What if there were a second planet-sized body there?

    I would say in that example:

    • Jupiter is the dominant mass making it be the planet.
    • Anything in the Lagrangian points would not be planets specifically because anything in those points are there because of Jupiter and its orbit, not in spite of it.