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Is Venus a star or a planet?

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Is Venus, the second planet from the Sun in the Solar System an instance of the class star (the astronomical object including the sun - a massive luminous ball of plasma) or the class solar planet (a celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun, has sufficient mass so that it assumes a nearly round shape and has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit)?

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  • solar planet (a celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun, has sufficient mass so that it assumes a nearly round shape and has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit) and Venus, the second planet from the Sun in the Solar System

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Venus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it has been known as the Morning Star or Evening Star. Venus is classified as a terrestrial planet and it ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
Venus l Venus facts, pictures and information.
(Venus's apparition as the morning star is also sometimes called Lucifer.) Since Venus is an inferior planet, it shows phases when viewed with a telescope ...
http://nineplanets.org/venus.html
StarChild: The planet Venus
Venus: Earth's Twin: Venus is called the Evening Star. It is called this because it looks so bright to us from Earth.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/venus....
Venus, the Morning Star and Evening Star
One of the nicknames of Venus is “the Morning Star”. It’s also known as the Evening Star. Of course, Venus isn’t a star at all, but a planet. So why does Venus have ...
http://www.universetoday.com/22570/venus-the-morning-star/
Venus Introduction
Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by ancient astronomers as the morning star ... This is a Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on ...
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm

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