Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
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Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
 Jun 7 2007, 03:07 PM
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 Senior Member  Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197  |
I find the denigration of Ceres as an object of interest to be puzzling. The fact that so little is known, yet before long we are about to find out so much is what is drawing me. Let's face it, the most interesting item in your house when you were a kid was an unwrapped Christmas present the day before Christmas. Those vague tantalizing Hubble images just add to the excitement -- as thought the present was wrapped with slightly transparent paper.
Right now Ceres is the MOST interesting object in the Solar System. If I had to list an uninspiring object, I'd have to say it would be Comet Kohoutek, but then most of you kids won't remember that big let-down. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jun 7 2007, 04:05 PM
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Most dull and uninteresting object in the solar system? Paris Hilton
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Jun 7 2007, 05:06 PM
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QUOTE (Toma B @ Jun 7 2007, 02:03 AM)  I can't believe that some of you put Moon in the "Most boring" part of your lists...  Well, the most boring was done by Apollo and the Lunakhod missions on the moon.... but I don't think that's what he meant.  I have to agree that the question "What is the most boring object in the solar system?" doesn't make sense to me, unless we stretch the definition of objects to include television about celebrity heiresses. EDIT - DOH - brellis beat me to it..... -------------------- Lyford Rome
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Jun 7 2007, 05:47 PM
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 SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
I clearly could have phrased the topic/question better.
 Absolutely true that each world is fascinating in it's own right, but I was aiming for personal tastes. ( I've spent a fairly disporportionate amount of time sorting and staring at pictures of Rhea  ) An entirely seperate poll based on percentage of hard drive space occupied would paint a different picture too.
-------------------- ...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, 06:07 PM
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Now, see, I'm in the camp that every solar system object is interesting. I think Luna is *tremendously* interesting -- all you guys and gals who think that samples returned from eight sites, and varying degrees of in-situ measurements from another six or seven, means we know everything we need to know about the place, are just plain misguided... Luna is more the norm than the exception in this system, and we can learn a LOT more from it that will apply to other bodies, such as Mercury and the asteroids.
There are very definite classifications of bodies, too, each of which holds its own fascination. Vacuum-shrouded rocky bodies; rocky bodies with atmospheres; small rocky bodies; small icy bodies; large gas bodies; and large ice and gas bodies. Each has its own general set of processes, each has its own general set of geological conditions. (Titan, as a small icy body with an atmosphere, is sort of in a class by itself...) Even Rhea, with the interesting organization of its crater chains, holds some interest for me. I'm still convinced that a lot of Rhea's crater chains are endogenically controlled... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 7 2007, 06:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
My preferences based on hard drive storage percentages:
58% Titan 20% Europa/Ganymede/Callisto 17% Mars 3% Exoplanets 1% Enceladeus 1% Venus -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jun 7 2007, 07:01 PM
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LOL let me try that out. No percentages, just the raw numbers. I should also point out that this is on my laptop, not my work computer as that would skew Titan's numbers considerably...
Io: 5.39 GB Ganymede: 15.4 MB Titan: 1.30 GB Enceladus: 717 MB Rhea: 35.8 MB Dione: 92.6 MB Tethys: 64.8 MB Saturn: 18.2 MB Phoebe: 18.0 MB Mimas: 11.8 MB Iapetus: 62.1 MB Triton: 14.0 MB -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jun 7 2007, 07:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
There's a slight hint of you being an Io fan right there.
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Jun 7 2007, 08:10 PM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
(Expletive deleted), that really does skew the balance!!!
Mars 6.56gb Terra 1.54gb Europa 1.22gb Titan 843mb Luna 751mb Venus 496mb Io 352mb Saturn 302mb Mercury 291mb Enceladus 234mb -------------------- ...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, 08:52 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 160 Joined: 4-July 05 From: Huntington Beach, CA, USA Member No.: 429 |
Most Interesting:
1) Europa 2) Titan 3) Mars 4) Ganymede 5) Ceres 6) Venus 7) Io 8) Eris 9) Vesta 10) Sedna I just cannot call anything boring. If it seems boring, it means we know too little about it to be intrigued. |
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Jun 7 2007, 11:26 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 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: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Jun 7 2007, 04:26 PM) 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 8 2007, 01:01 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
You sure Io isn't the Hawaii of the Solar System? Mauna Loa, after all...
-------------------- 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, 01:22 AM
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I am taking a similar post I made here several years ago, which was about my personal 'top 12' moons, and adding in planets and minor planets as appropriate. The top 10 in that combined list are as follows:
1: Titan 2: Earth 3: Europa 4: Venus 5: Io 6: Mars 7: Triton 8: Jupiter 9: Neptune 10: Luna Bill |
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Jun 8 2007, 07:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"...If I had to list an uninspiring object, I'd have to say it would be Comet Kohoutek...."
Hey!.. I SAW Khoutek... 6" home assembled Edmonds telescope. Most boring object in the solar system... At the moment: PARIS HILTON! |
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