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, 11:26 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
What's very telling is VP's space allocated to Mars, which would be not so much as a single bit...
My top ten, in descending order (I don't store many images, actually): 1. Titan 2. Mars 3. Io 4. Europa 5. Triton 6. Enceladus 7. Miranda 8. Hyperion 9. Luna 10. Puck My bottom ten: 1. Rhea 2. Rhea 3. Rhea...(well, you get the idea...) I feel kind of sorry for any future colonists from there; Rhea is definitely the North Dakota of the Solar System. All that said, I agree with ElkGroveDan; Dawn may (in fact, almost certainly will) reveal some real surprises from Ceres and Vesta...to say nothing of the Pluto system from NH. Many lists will be reshuffled! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jun 8 2007, 12:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
What's very telling is VP's space allocated to Mars, which would be not so much as a single bit... I do have the USGS labeled Europa map... QUOTE 3. Rhea...(well, you get the idea...) I feel kind of sorry for any future colonists from there; Rhea is definitely the North Dakota of the Solar System. And Io is the Texas of the Solar System, and Mars and Europa can fight over the title of California of the Solar System. Titan is a combination of Minnesota and Arizona. QUOTE All that said, I agree with ElkGroveDan; Dawn may (in fact, almost certainly will) reveal some real surprises from Ceres and Vesta...to say nothing of the Pluto system from NH. Many lists will be reshuffled! I have included Vesta, Pluto, and Charon on my lists. Though to be honest, I fear Vesta will be like a mini-Moon, only with a giant hole at the South Pole - heavily cratered with mare filling in some of the larger impact basins. My listing of Pluto and Charon are based on my own imaginings of those two worlds. I imagine Pluto as a cross between Triton and Dione. Imagine Dione's varying crater density, fracture systems, but with Triton's polar caps and volatile cycle. I imagine Charon as much like Rhea, with a large impact basin in the northern part of its leading hemisphere.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jun 11 2007, 07:56 AM
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