A278658 Value of Margot's planetary discriminant Pi for n-th planet from the Sun.

130, 950, 810, 54, 40000, 6100, 420, 300

Offset

1,1

Comments

A value >= 1 indicates that the planet has sufficient mass to clear its orbit.

A planet is a solar system body that meets the definition of "planet" passed on August 24, 2006 under Resolution 5A of the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..8.

J. Margot, A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets, The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 150, No. 6 (2015), Article 185.

J. Margot, A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets, arXiv:1507.06300 [astro-ph.EP], 2015.

Wikipedia, Clearing the neighbourhood

Wikipedia, IAU definition of planet

Crossrefs

Cf. A116448, A118652, A130788, A131500.

Sequence in context: A281209 A253036 A187723 * A254924 A185584 A301545

Adjacent sequences: A278655 A278656 A278657 * A278659 A278660 A278661

Keyword

nonn

Author

Felix Fröhlich, Nov 25 2016

Status

approved