Re:No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technical...
by lmm on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:25AM
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> effectively “exoplanets” are extrasolar planemos
Right, which I think proves my point - surely we'd like planet and exoplanet to mean equivalent things.
> I don't see how that follows, since having cleared an orbit is addition empirical information, and information that we are able to develop on solar system objects, if not extrasolar ones, in reasonable time.
Well, I'd argue that Pluto (and Ceres before it) shows that it may take us an unreasonably long time. And the current definition awkwardly mixes two things that are really separate concerns: the characteristics of the object itself and what it's orbiting.
Right, which I think proves my point - surely we'd like planet and exoplanet to mean equivalent things.
> I don't see how that follows, since having cleared an orbit is addition empirical information, and information that we are able to develop on solar system objects, if not extrasolar ones, in reasonable time.
Well, I'd argue that Pluto (and Ceres before it) shows that it may take us an unreasonably long time. And the current definition awkwardly mixes two things that are really separate concerns: the characteristics of the object itself and what it's orbiting.