Talk:HD 189733 b

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[edit] To be more user-friendly

This planet will be in the news for a time. Expressions that urgently need to be expanded to be more user-friendly to the moderately-prepared reader are: "transit depth", "semi-amplitude", "flux decrement". An appositive phrase or a footnote would do: imagine that you are writing in the New York Times Science section for a literate general public. --Wetman 23:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Another term that is not apparent to the educated layperson: "spectroscopically observed". As an example of an article with suitable language about this topic (HD 189733 b), see http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57321.html --Glacialfury 17:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I tried to clarify some terms ("transit depth", "flux decrement", and "secondary eclipse") using parentheses, and wikilinked spectroscopically, but I had to tag semi-amplitude with {{clarifyme}}. -Wikianon (talk) 11:03, 18 February 2008 (UTC)