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Also known as Infobox Small, Medium, or Large Lump of Rock, Gas, or Ice, possibly Spherical, that May (or May Not) be a Planet.

This template has been designed to hold information on planets (including extrasolar planets), dwarf planets, moons and minor planets. Some parameters will not be applicable to individual types; these parameters can be removed from the template call without any problems occurring. It is recommended that the comment in the usage section be copied to the top of the article page.

Exosolar Planets
Below are the recommended parameters. All parameters listed in the "All parameters" section below are available.

Minor planets
See here for means of semi-automating this template's creation.

Not listed is the optional argument 'astron', which may be used to substitute a different suffix to the default 'helion'. For example, setting 'astron=astron' will change the 'perihelion', 'aphelion', and 'Argument of perihelion' labels into 'periastron', 'apastron', and 'Argument of periastron'</tt>. This may be used for satellites of minor planets, for example.