Talk:Solar System/Archive 9
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White supremacist tone
The Original wikipedia article has racist article tone. The article skips over the ancent Egyptian (Khemetic), Mayan, Persian, Nubian astronomy, and cosmology and only gives the white Greek, and white European astronomy facts and scientists. We need not wonder why racism exists, one major component is via educational documents that only highlight supposedly white-skinned scientists, thinkers, history, etc. 2604:2000:DDD1:4900:2195:4268:CD03:6B48 (talk) 10:38, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- Sources to support the expansion you are looking for? Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 13:11, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
- Such info is outside the scope of this article; it would be better placed in Discovery and exploration of the Solar System or Planet#Mythology and naming Serendipodous 14:45, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Can we add a visual schematic (maybe in the Visual Summary section)?
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Schematic Summary
This is a summary of Solar System objects, including symbol, approximate relative size, whether or not there is a ring system or round moons, object type, and distance from the Sun in AU.
Siznax (talk) 16:19, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
Appreciate the work, but it has issues. The size images don't make a lot of visual sense, particularly for the non-planets. As for the planets, I have no idea where you got their relative sizes from, but they're way off. The astronomical symbols aren't that relevant to the Solar System as a whole, and it doesn't really give a sense of what the Solar System is like. Serendipodous 17:05, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
- Also: Plutoids are TNOS, and the symbol is for Pluto only, not the group. Tbayboy (talk) 18:06, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
- Haha. I'm sure someone else can do a better job. I've found a schematic like this useful for helping learners understand what kinds of things are in the solar system (versus deep sky objects), which planets have rings and round moons, where non-planet-like things are (roughly), and how far away from the sun everything is. The idea is just to have a visual summary. The symbols are helpful for them to know so they can read a solar system configuration diagram like John Walker's Solar System Live (https://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/) Siznax (talk) 03:37, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- This table is misleading and does not strike me as adding much comprehension of the Solar System. The existing explanations and renderings of relative sizes and distances are pretty good. The article lacks a summary view of moons but that certainly can't be dumbed down to a series of dots as proposed. I'd suggest writing a short section excerpted from List of natural satellites and illustrating it with File:Moons_of_solar_system_v7.jpg — JFG talk 12:35, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
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Edit request - number of satellites in infobox.
173 ---> 175.
Two new moons of Jupiter.
8.40.151.110 (talk) 23:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Another one.
Further down, it says Jupiter has 67 known satellites.
This needs to be updated to 69. 8.40.151.110 (talk) 13:27, 7 June 2017 (UTC)