On Mar 20, 9:36 am, Andrew Usher wrote:
Some time ago I came across this page
(http://arcbuilder.home.bresnan.net/PCLMaster.html) (I don't remember
how) and was quite interested. Though unfortunately we have only our
own solar system to study right now, contemplating the other
possiblities is certainly worthwhile.

I had once imagined making such a list myself, but was not confident
of my knowledge.

As I was reading it, I found many apparent inaccuracies

FYI : The 'Meghar' Scale is now the defacto standard in planetary mass
classification. There is something there for everybody :

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.a...5d5976374dc39a

I've filled in the 'Lunar' class, and added a 'Enceladas' class of ice
moons, and thus it now extends from the minimum spheroidal planet all
the way up into the brown dwarf and dwarf star regime, due to a
fortuitous set of solar system circumstances with respect to Jupiter
and solar masses :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...bjects_by_mass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:G...e_masses_2.png

The original blog post I did on this is offline, but I will eventually
get around to reblogging it on my latest science blog :

http://konstantin-tsiolkovsky.blogspot.com/

The credit for this goes to Willie Meghar, all I did was polish it up
and present it to the scientific community, where it was immediately
embraced by most of the hard core participants in this 'debate'.