Talk:90482 Orcus
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Added missing "." in Mass listing on table. Abyssoft 21:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Diameter
From “IAU's Planet Definition” Questions & Answers Sheet:[1]
(90482) Orcus 1000±200 km [Brown, Binzel, private communication (2006)]
It may be much smaller than thought.--JyriL talk 14:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sources / possible satellite
I do not believe that we should use proposals as references. After all, if an astronomer wants to get a grant/telescope time etc. he could mention the possibility that the object is … inhabited. I feel we should keep with the usual sources. Let Mr Brown publish first. Eurocommuter 16:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. It's a good example of intriguing information that could mentioned on the talk page. Suggestive/speculative information doesn't belong to article itself.--JyriL talk 19:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- I can't help but think it is a bit outrageous to suggest that Mr. Brown lied about something so important to his work just to get telescope time. JamesFox 01:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- This was certainly not my point! My point was that with Google one can find many documents and not all of them should be used as references. Astronomers have data /hypothesis they want to test. They decide what and when to publish. I simply belive that we should let them to do so and then report it. My apologies, if my comment was read otherwise.Eurocommuter 10:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Except that from the proposal, I get the impression that the satellite of Orcus is regarded as fact by Michael Brown (just not announced), due to the phrasing used, and that the telescope time was to get data necessary to compute the orbital period, not to confirm the existance of the satellite. JamesFox 19:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, but he hasn't published any evidence to prove a satellite. If there is one, he'll publish when he's ready. I'm sure he himself would rather confirm it first, rather than have his funding proposals used as evidence. The Singing Badger 20:26, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Except that from the proposal, I get the impression that the satellite of Orcus is regarded as fact by Michael Brown (just not announced), due to the phrasing used, and that the telescope time was to get data necessary to compute the orbital period, not to confirm the existance of the satellite. JamesFox 19:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- This was certainly not my point! My point was that with Google one can find many documents and not all of them should be used as references. Astronomers have data /hypothesis they want to test. They decide what and when to publish. I simply belive that we should let them to do so and then report it. My apologies, if my comment was read otherwise.Eurocommuter 10:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
