Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Jun 7 2007, 07:07 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
Yes, it's time to Rock the Inner Geek and proclaim your love for what you consider to be what's hot and what's...well, boring in terms of planetary excitement. Criteria may include dynamicism, color, scale, grandeur, crater-counting wrist torture, budgetary reality, and whatever else you might consider relevant. I'll open with my own picks, without giving any particular reasons. (Earth can count if you like)
In descending order... Most Interesting: 1.) Io 2.) Titan 3.) Europa 4.) Enceladus 5.) Mars 6.) Triton 7.) Venus 8.) Pluto 9.) Dione 10. Iapetus Least Interesting: 1.) Rhea 2.) Luna 3.) Mercury 4.) Oberon 5.) Mimas 6.) Tethys 7.) Callisto 8.) Ganymede 9.) Earth 10.) New Jersey -------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
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Jun 7 2007, 07:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
hehe
Most Interesting: 1) Io 2) Titan 3) Triton 4) Enceladus 5) Venus 6) Earth 7) Miranda 8) Ganymede 9) Vesta 10) Pluto Least Interesting: 1) Europa 2) Mars 3) Tethys 4) Rhea 5) Callisto 6) Mars 7) Mercury 8) Charon (in my mind, it looks exactly like Rhea) 9) The Moon 10) Pasiphae (EDITL Replaced Hati with the Moon) -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Jun 7 2007, 07:49 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
Bonus points for listing Mars twice, and equating Charon with Rhea is thought-provoking. Europa provokes deathmatch in the alley behind Pizza Hut of your choice. I'm slow and uncoordinated, so play nice.
-------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
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Jun 7 2007, 08:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 11-December 04 Member No.: 120 |
My list, kind of search-for-life centered I think....
Most: 1.Exo planets 2.Mars 3.Enceladus 4.Titan 5.Europa 6.All other, except... Least: 1.Low Earth Orbit 2 to 10.The Moon |
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Jun 7 2007, 08:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Most interesting:
Earth Titan Mars Venus Sedna Ganymede Europa Io Triton Iapetus I refuse to name boring ones - there aren't any. |
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Jun 7 2007, 09:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
I can't believe that some of you put Moon in the "Most boring" part of your lists...
Here's my list. I will put no numbers because they are all most interesting in they own way. Most Interesting: Io Jupiter Mars Europa Titan Moon (buy yourself a telescope) Enceladus Iapetus All Asteroids/Comets (Ida,Gaspra,Eros,Itokawa,Tempel 1,Halle-Bopp...) Sun This list does not contain Ceres,Vesta,Lutetia or Pluto because they are not explored/seen by spacecrafts yet but they are damn interesting to me... Most boring: Sorry but I cannot think of any Solar System object that would easily fit here... -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Jun 7 2007, 10:15 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I can't think of a single body in the solar system that I'd find boring.
Doug |
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Jun 7 2007, 11:57 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2256 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
I echo what Doug said (and no, I'm not forgetting about Rhea).
Interesting ones in very approximate/crude order by how interesting they seem: Titan Io Jupiter Europa Saturn Enceladus Triton Uranus (!) Venus Mars Neptune Vesta Pluto Miranda I was unable to limit myself to only 10 bodies. |
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Jun 7 2007, 12:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
As most interesting: Comets! Possibly the most active orbiting objects in the solar system. Especially Churyumov- Gerasimenko with the arrival of Rosetta. I cried after observing the many seperate components of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 and realising only afterwards that it would have been the target of the (failed) COUNTOUR mission.
-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Jun 7 2007, 12:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
From most to least interesting:
Terra Titan Mars Venus ( I'm sure, were there pretty MER-like surface panoramas, it would be very popular ) Triton Io Enceladus Europa Miranda Ganymede Luna .......all known asteroids Dione Ariel Titania Callisto ( the fact that it's 'melting' saves it from total boredom ) Mercury Iapetus ( it's Rhea's twin sister. Only with lousy make-up and a love handle around the waist ) Oberon Umbriel Tethys Mimas ( that whole death-star routine doesn't fool me ) a frozen corpse in the morgue Rhea |
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Jun 7 2007, 01:20 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I started with a list, but I realized that there were no major moons, planets, or kuiperoids I left off. I have dificulty with the "boring" thing. Rhea, for example, isn't all that exciting in and of itself, buut understanding why it evolved so much differently than Dione, with Tethys in the middle, is fascinating.
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Jun 7 2007, 01:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
Well, here we go.
Most interesting: Titan, Mars, Io, Europa, Triton, Saturn's rings, Iapetus, Enceladus, Miranda, Venus. honorable mention: Hyperion, Ganymede, Ariel, Luna, Vesta (#11-15) Least inspiring: Rhea, Tethys, Oberon, Umbriel, Uranus, Mercury, Saturn proper, Mimas, Ceres, Dione. And making up a new category: Most interesting *for its size*: Hyperion, with Enceladus and Miranda close behind (Phobos, too). Least interesting *for its size*: Saturn. Something with 95 Earth masses can do better. Uranus is a close second, though. |
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Jun 7 2007, 02:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Least interesting *for its size*: Saturn. Something with 95 Earth masses can do better. Uranus is a close second, though. You can't blame the planet for high altitude hazes obscuring interesting cloud dynamics. Blame the temperature!For me, I can't really select favorite places in the solar system because each of the places is unique, but I can select a random few I find Moon, Mercury, Mimas, Rhea, Uranus (though the equinox did bring some life to it). Tethys and Dione.. well, they're also dull, but Dione has a dark stain and "wispy" terrain and Tethys has the orangish splat so from an imaging standpoint it pulls them out of the brink for me. There's also a few Uranian moons I find less than awe-inspiring but at least they're brownish in color! -------------------- |
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Jun 7 2007, 02:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 18-December 04 Member No.: 123 |
Quote of the Day for ugordan!
"You can't blame the planet for high altitude hazes obscuring interesting cloud dynamics. Blame the temperature!" Only at UMSF, classic -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!
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Jun 7 2007, 02:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
The ironic part is I included Uranus in the boring list and yet the same don't blame it statement could be said about that planet as well.
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