Orphan planet

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According to the Thirteenth Doctor, orphan planet was a grading that meant that a formerly habitable planet had become too toxic for life and was now uninhabitable. In societies that let this happen, there was often a ruling elite that managed to evacuate, then signed off all responsibility for whatever they had left behind; all sentient life died and the planet was classified as orphan.

In a unknown future after 2020, in a possible timeline, there were at least 54 orphan planets by the time Earth itself became one, being designated as Orphan 55. (TV: Orphan 55)