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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)?

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)
Major moons in the Solar System
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)

 Done Double sharp (talk) 04:18, 7 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)

Done. Serendipodous 14:36, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Value of Astronomical Unit

In the "Distances and scales" section, it reads "The distance from Earth to the Sun is 1 astronomical unit (150,000,000 km), or AU." I feel that this should either be changed to the precise value given in the linked 'Astronomical_unit' article (149 597 870 700 metres (or 149,597,870.7 km)), or prefaced with 'approximately'. I'm unfamiliar with the "{ {convert|1|AU|km|lk=on} }" form though, and don't have time to investigate further. Photastro (talk) 06:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 10 March 2018

Pluto is not counted as a planet. Pluto is not counted as a planet because of its gas and dust with make is so small. Pluto is only small because there is no water or oxygen there is only gas and dust witch makes it smaller. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:8D:8900:C8CF:AC35:D676:84C7:1755 (talk) 13:45, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

No that is not why Pluto is not a planet, which is odd because this article explains why. Just read footnote e. Serendipodous 14:14, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 April 2018

Can you find a picture of the solar system that includes dwarf planets, moons, and small solar system bodies to show that the solar system is more than the sun and eight planets for the infobox picture? 2601:183:101:58D0:21FA:6823:6996:3DB1 (talk) 22:54, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Can you? Brycehughes (talk) 23:50, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Not done: Your request consists only of a vague request to add, update, modify, or improve an image, or is a request to include an image that is hosted on an external site. If you want an image changed, you must identify a specific image that has already been uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Please note that any image used on any Wikipedia article must comply with the Wikipedia image use policy, particularly where copyright is concerned. —KuyaBriBriTalk 02:55, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

What do you think about changing the infobox image to Planets2008.jpg because it includes the dwarf planets? Then, for the moons of the solar system, what do you think about adding either Small bodies of the Solar System.jpg or Moons of solar system v7.jpg somewhere in the article? 2601:183:101:58D0:B8AB:BDAF:E94A:EBC8 (talk) 19:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: Planets2008.jpg was replaced with Planets2013.svg (it is the same image) as it is an .svg version and better quality. Unless you are willing to do the same thing, but include the moons, I don't think reverting back to Planets2008.jpg is constructive.
With regards to Small bodies of the Solar System.jpg and Moons of solar system v7.jpg: these images are already in the article List_of_natural_satellites and since this article doesn't have a section on moons and plenty of other appropriate images I think these additions are unnecessary. Waddie96 (talk) 11:16, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
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