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by nnutter 1752 days ago
Wikipedia more-or-less disagrees with you.
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I like how it's "Wikipedia" that disagrees. Not the rando(s) who wrote or edited the article.
Well, it's the randos who wrote or edited the article, and the greater number of randos who read it afterwards and didn't edit it.
Chiron is a planet.

Chiron is a comet.

"Wikipedia" agrees with both of those statements.

Since it cannot be both, "Wikipedia" also agrees with the statements that Chiron is not a comet and is not a planet.

tldr: we don't know, it could be either

2060 Chiron /ˈkaɪərɒn/ is a small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs—bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron

In Greek mythology, Chiron (/ˈkaɪrən/ KY-rən; also Cheiron or Kheiron; Ancient Greek: Χείρων means 'hand') was held to be the superlative centaur amongst his brethren since he was called the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron

Chiron – A centaur with a white stallion body[9] and a son of Kronos. He is the mentor of Percy Jackson and the activities director at Camp Half-Blood. In The Lightning Thief, he first appears, disguised as a Latin teacher at Percy's school. He uses an enchanted wheelchair to conceal his horse half.[7] Chiron is played by Pierce Brosnan in the first film and by Anthony Head in the second film. In the musical, he is portrayed by Jonathan Raviv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_mytholog...

Also, it's fair to say systems based on classification based on subjective criteria will always have grey area, so any absolute statement about them will be difficult to defend :)