Talk:3063: Planet Definitions
Revision as of 16:45, 14 March 2025 by 172.69.79.138 (talk) (The hill is wide and spacious, come join me.)
The one currently posted has Pluto highlighted in the second box and not highlighted in the first box. Too hard to tell if it's trolling or a genuine mistake. :-D
And the first one also has a moon hilighted instead I think?? 162.158.126.5 15:59, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- Was about to write the same. The coloring in the first two lines arund Pluto seem wrong (or mistankingly switched). --172.71.222.246 16:17, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- This, this is the hill I will die on. I was radicalised by this paper: Moons Are Planets: "Scientific Usefulness Versus Cultural Teleology in the Taxonomy of Planetary Science"
- In short; planets are what planetary scientists study. Round things with the *good stuff*: atmospheres, oceans, volcanoes (of lava or water ice) (see diagram page 53).
- Pluto, Titan, Ceres, Io and Europa are all in the sweet spot where you're not so small you're just a lump of rocks who happen to be stuck together into a lump, and not so large you're just a mostly undifferentiated mass of fusing hydrogen/helium plasma.
- And it's consistent with our pre-20th Century understanding of what a planet is. An amazing read and a strong recommend for anyone who cares about this subject. 172.69.79.138 16:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
