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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Feb 16 2022, 07:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
Sorry to necropost but this is a fun topic
Most interesting: 1. Earth (obviously cause it has the most geologic processes going on at once) 2. Mars (Most extreme terrain aside from perhaps Miranda and possible geologic activity ongoing) 3. Titan (Basically if Earth was made of ice) 4. Venus (Lots of interesting terrain going on) 5. Europa (activity and a form of art) 6. Io (Lots of color and activity) 7. Enceladus (activity) 8. Triton (different types of geologic activity) 9. Miranda (What kind of geologic activity happened here?) 10. Ganymede (Looks like a jigsaw puzzle) Most boring objects: 1. Umbriel (for an object its size, it sure lacks any geologic activity, the whole thing looks like the lunar highlands) 2. Rhea (Dione's less interesting sibling) 3. Mimas (cool you got a crater but geologically boring) 4. Tethys (see 3) 5. Oberon (not much happened here, a couple cool rayed craters is it) 6. Callisto (cool colors, just craters though) 7. Vesta (aside from a couple possible long dead volcanoes, its super dead) 8. Mercury (no color) 9. Moon (no color, maria bump it down from 8) 10-some millions. almost all asteroids and satellites smaller than Vesta and Pallas aside from ringed Centaurs, just a featureless clump of boulders shaped into potatoes that beg to be mapped Stuff we gotta visit: 1. Sedna (coldest thing out there!) 2. Psyche (in progress, iron asteroid!) 3. Chiron (those rings and any possible moons!) 4. 2005 HC4 (this thing probably turns to soft plastic at perihelion) 5. Whatever interstellar comet enters the solar system next 6. Apophis after 2029 Earth encounter (that things gotta have rocks jostled around from tidal interactions) 7. Haumea (lotta bodies to explore at once!) 8. Northern hemisphere of Uranus moons 9. Northern hemisphere of Triton 10. Amalthea when Juno does an end of mission plunge (this thing is redder than Mars!) -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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