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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Aug 10 2015, 08:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Great list, Superstring, I think you and I would get along just fine I think if you are going for geologically active worlds I would probably put Pluto aside for just a bit. How much its surface looks young as the result of endogenic activity and how much of it is due to exogenic processes like active glaciers remains to be seen. Cthulhu Regio certainly looks quite ancient (with more glacially eroded, cratered terrains to the north of Tombaugh Regio). Right now, I would put Triton above Pluto given its much younger surface (overall).
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 12 2015, 10:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
How much its surface looks young as the result of endogenic activity and how much of it is due to exogenic processes like active glaciers remains to be seen. New press release today about accounting for Pluto's rate of Nitrogen loss, and how endogenic processes might be the source for it... http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20150812 and this... https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2015/08/10/atm...lutos-nitrogen/ |
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