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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    Many million years is nothing in geological or astronomical timescales. Any body with a heat source that short is dead cold by know. The solar system is 4.6 billion years old and the formation of planets or larger bodys has ended about 4 billion years ago.

    And tidal forces mean that a way larger body is close by, like a gas giant, as far as I remember are all known body’s with tidal heating moons not planets.