major planet

British  

noun

1. a planet of the solar system, as opposed to an asteroid (minor planet)

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Example Sentences

Five major planets in our solar system will shine brightly in a row during a rare planetary conjunction from Friday.

From BBC

An important shared trait among these worlds, however, is their mere existence: six of the eight major planets of our solar system have moons.

From Scientific American

The 60 frames that Voyager returned incorporated the Sun and six of the major planets - Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

From BBC

In order to explain the present architecture of the major planets a certain amount of orbital rearrangement, or migration, is often invoked.

From Scientific American

On one wall he made a scale drawing of the major planets, ranging from little Mercury, represented by a circle about as big as a marble, to Jupiter, as big as a basketball.

From Literature