Except I said nothing of the sort. I said the opposite. Jupiter, Neptune and earth in your example dominate the gravity of their orbit by locking the smaller b

Except I said nothing of the sort. I said the opposite. Jupiter, Neptune and earth in your example dominate the gravity of their orbit by locking the smaller bodies into orbital reasonances. It’s not a vague criterium. It might be an irrelevant one if you are interested in geophysics, but it’s concrete and testable.