Talk:3063: Planet Definitions
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)
the coloring of Pluto does look inverted in the two first lines, they probably got switched by mistake--172.71.90.43 17:28, 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, whereas the IAU definition is trying to preserve 19th Century astrology. An amazing read and a strong recommend for anyone who cares about this subject. 172.69.79.138 16:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Does this sort of count as pi-related for pi day? TomtheBuilder (talk) 17:04, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
I was somewhat disappointed to get to the end of the table without seeing either an astrology or Sailor Moon joke. -- Angel (talk) 18:12, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Is it possible that Uranus is marked under "Empiricist" because of the "Randall has seen Uranus" joke? 172.70.42.178 18:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
The "Classical Planets" should be 7, including the Sun and the Moon.
