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Pluto is out from planet dictionary
Margo Schulter wrote:
snip text The one thing that might be added -- especially if you or others can improve on my first quick attempt -- is a set of diagrams to show visually the levels of definition we're discussing. Here's that crude first try; note, by the way, that after the diagrams of 5A and 5B, there's a diagram for the kind of compromise I've proposed, where the term "planet" actually appears twice, once in a generic meaning (like the defeated 5B) and once in a specific meaning (like the adopted 5A), allowing a choice between the two usages. Margo, having had a longer look myself, I think your diagrams don't quite reflect the linguistics. The following shows how I see the intended outcome of 5B and illustrate how your version is really the same other than the choice of name. I have also indicated the priority of the 'satellite' criterion. [composed with monospaced font] ----------------------- Resolution 5A (Adopted) ----------------------- Solar system bodies | --------------------------------------- | | Is not a Satellite satellite of another | body [other ---------------------------------- than Sun] | | | Hydrostatic equilibrium, Not enough mass for | self-gravity produces hydrostatic equilibrium; | "nearly round" shape; and not a satellite of another | not a satellite of another body [other than Sun] | body [other than Sun] | | | | | -------------- | | | | | | Clears Doesn't | | orbit clear orbit | | | | | | | | | | "Planet" "Dwarf Planet" "Small Solar System Body" "Satellite" (e.g. most Solar System (e.g. Moon, asteroids, TNOs, comets) Titan) TNO = "Trans-Neptunian Object" ------------------------ Resolution 5B (defeated) ------------------------ Solar system bodies | --------------------------------------- | | Is not a Satellite satellite of another | body [other ---------------------------------- than Sun] | | | Hydrostatic equilibrium, Not enough mass for | self-gravity produces hydrostatic equilibrium; | "nearly round" shape; and not a satellite of another | not a satellite of another body [other than Sun] | body [other than Sun] | | | | | "Planet" | | | | | -------------- | | | | | | Clears Doesn't | | orbit clear orbit | | | | | | "Classical" "Dwarf" "Small Solar System Body" "Satellite" (e.g. most Solar System (e.g. Moon, asteroids, TNOs, comets) Titan) -------------------------------- Possible compromise proposal for future consideration -------------------------------- Solar system bodies | --------------------------------------- | | Is not a Satellite satellite of another | body [other ---------------------------------- than Sun] | | | Hydrostatic equilibrium, Not enough mass for | self-gravity produces hydrostatic equilibrium; | "nearly round" shape; and not a satellite of another | not a satellite of another body [other than Sun] | body [other than Sun] | | | | | "Planet" | | | | | -------------- | | | | | | Clears Doesn't | | orbit clear orbit | | | | | | "Major" "Dwarf" "Small Solar System Body" "Satellite" (e.g. most Solar System (e.g. Moon, asteroids, TNOs, comets) Titan) George |
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