Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Solar System

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Working definition

Objects within, and history topics related to the Solar System.

there really needs to be a clear(er) definition for the topic now that subtopics are on their way — thus allowing for the topic to be more focused Nergaal (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Improvements

Vital

None.

Potential

All current articles are FAs.

• addition of Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
• addition of Centaur (minor planet)
• addition of Near Earth asteroid
• addition of Interplanetary medium

Subtopics

Established

1. Jupiter
2. Dwarf planets
3. Main asteroid belt—needs the addition of other large asteroids: 511 Davida, 52 Europa and 704 Interamnia, asteroids with satellites and those visited by spacecraft.

Future subtopics

1. Sun — Structure of the Sun (Solar core, Chromosphere, etc.), Features of the Sun (Corona, Sunspot, etc.), Heliosphere, Solar wind, The Sun in human culture (Solar eclipse), Sunlight
2. Mercury — Geology, Exploration, Atmosphere, Albedo features
3. Venus — Geology, Atmosphere, Observations and explorations, Colonization
4. Earth — Moon, History of Earth, Geological history of Earth, Structure of the Earth, Earth's atmosphere, Earth's magnetosphere
5. Mars — Geology, Atmosphere, Geography, Moons, Life on Mars, Colonization, Exploration
6. Saturn — Titan, Iapetus, Rhea, Dione, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Atmosphere, Magnetosphere, Rings, Moons, Exploration

Further subtopics

1. Comets — Kreutz Sungrazers, Main belt comet, Oort cloud, Halley's Comet,Comet Hyakutake, Comet Hale-Bopp, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Giotto, Stardust, Deep Impact, Great comet, Lists of comets

Side-topics

These are not technically part of the Solar System topic.

1. Planet – Terrestrial planet, Gas giant, Rogue planet, Extrasolar planet, Definition of planet, Nebular hypothesis, Planetary habitability

Possible additions

See also: Template:Solar System table

The ultimate scope of this topic and subtopics (not included above)

This topic could go on forever, so it would help to delineate what will and will not eventually be included. Here's a list of possible candidates; please add or take away anything you feel is necessary:

1. there are 12 other spherical moons, and one moon (Proteus) that is large enough to be spherical but isn't.
2. there are at least 40 other objects in the outer Solar System that are large enough to be spherical, but are not likely to be classified as dwarf planets because they can't be seen in enough detail to determine their sphericity 100 percent
3. other significant minor planet populations
4. various molecular elements to the Solar System, including solar wind, interplanetary medium, heliosphere, interplanetary dust cloud, cosmic dust, meteoroids.
5. other "Moons of" articles: Moons of Pluto, etc

Discussions

I think for the sake of cleanness we should use this section as the talkpage.

Archived. Nergaal (talk) 01:10, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Minor planets subtopic

would have to include anything else than minor planet, asteroid, centaur, Trans-Neptunian objectand dwarf planet? Nergaal (talk) 01:13, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

The Sun will be delisted soon, then the main topic will cease to exit, so this proposal is meaningless. Ruslik_Zero 10:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Why do you think that? There are only four or five things on the review page that are still causing problems. Fix them and we should be fine. Serendi^podous 15:04, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

moons subtopic?

There are two ways to do this (with the list of moons as a header):

1. include the lists of moons for each planet (Earth, Uranus, Jupiter and Haumea ok, so 4 of 8 ready)
2. include only the 19 round ones (10/19 ready)

any thoughts? Nergaal (talk) 04:15, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

I think the way this topic is going is that the large moons of each planet will be included in their planet's respective subtopic, as with Jupiter and (soon) Uranus. Serendi^podous 14:03, 6 December 2009 (UTC)