Planet Classes

Official UAS classifications of planets and Celestial Real Estate ==Asteroidal Class== Size range 5 meters to 50 kilometers. Barring dust and rock chips, these are the smallest planetary bodies. Commonly known as asteroids and comets, these chunks of rock and ice are every bit as varied in their form as are the larger planets.

Planetesimal Class
Size range 51 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers. Often considered the building blocks of larger planetary bodies, these worlds can survive throughout a solar system's lifetime, mainly as larger sized asteroids. However, finding planetesimals in independant planetary orbits is just as common, and can represent "failed" planets from the formation process.

Terrestrial Class
Size range 1,001 to 30,000 kilometers. These are the rocky planets, a deceptive name as not all of these worlds will be rocky. Their composition can be quite varied, as can their surface features and conditions. Earth is a terrestrial world, and in this Class is found all of the Gaian Type and Subtype worlds.

Gardenworld Class
Size range 1,001 to 30,000 kilometers. These are the rocky planets, a deceptive name as not all of these worlds will be rocky. Their composition can be quite varied, as can their surface features and conditions. Earth is a terrestrial world, and in this Class is found all of the Gaian Type and Subtype worlds.

Jovian Class
Mass range from 0.2 to 13 Jupiters. These are the gas giants. Varied in form and size, these are among the most beautiful planets, because of their preponderance towards multiple moons, ring systems, and widely varied color schemes.

These Epistellars exist within the tidal lock zone of the parent star. High temperatures cause the closest worlds to glow a dull orange, while farther worlds possess, typically, a uniform blue color with a bright heat spot at the sub-astral pole, and a thick concentration of clouds at the anti-astral pole (presuming that these worlds would indeed be tidally locked).

Rogue Class
These planets have become interstellar wanderers through various means, most common of which is gravitational expulsion during  planetary formation. All other planet Classes are represented by this Class. It is believed, also, that this Class is nearly as numerous as standard planets; perhaps up to 10 planets, not to mention planetesimals or asteroids, are expelled by a typical forming solar system.

Stellar Class
These are not planets but of a stellar nature. Used primarily as companion stars in a binary star system.



See also : Wurgus Planet Classification

Note: Gardenworld Class replaces Terrestial Class by Assembly Decission