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Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar
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post Jun 7 2007, 07:07 AM
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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


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post Jun 7 2007, 07:24 AM
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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)


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post Jun 7 2007, 07:49 AM
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biggrin.gif 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.


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post Jun 7 2007, 08:26 AM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 08:56 AM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 09:03 AM
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I can't believe that some of you put Moon in the "Most boring" part of your lists... sad.gif

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...


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post Jun 7 2007, 10:15 AM
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I can't think of a single body in the solar system that I'd find boring.

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post Jun 7 2007, 11:57 AM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 12:19 PM
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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.


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post Jun 7 2007, 12:41 PM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 01:20 PM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 01:57 PM
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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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post Jun 7 2007, 02:23 PM
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QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Jun 7 2007, 02:57 PM) *
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 boring less interesting (mostly from an aspect of "wow, nothing interesting happened here for ages AND it's visually dull (i.e. no color variation whatsoever)"), in no particular order:

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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post Jun 7 2007, 02:36 PM
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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, smile.gif classic smile.gif


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post Jun 7 2007, 02:51 PM
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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. smile.gif


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