Under the ‘has cleared its orbital neighborhood’ and ‘fuses hydrogen into helium’ definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

https://explainxkcd.com/3063/

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    Ceres does appear to be active in some form with cryovolcanoes, based on the 2015 Dawn mission.

    I think focus ought to be more on what the qualifications are for the minor label. What does it mean to be minor?