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Date: 19 Aug 2006 14:36:06
From: Thomas Lee Elifritz
Subject: The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification


http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=166

The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification

I have cast this in stone, or silicon, or electromagnetism at least.

You may as well get used to it, I'm the decider now.

http://cosmic.lifeform.org




 
Date: 20 Aug 2006 22:16:18
From: James
Subject: Re: The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification



"Thomas Lee Elifritz" <cosmic@lifeform.org > wrote in message
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> http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=166
>
> The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification
>
> I have cast this in stone, or silicon, or electromagnetism at least.
>
> You may as well get used to it, I'm the decider now.

Well, isn't that special.




 
Date: 21 Aug 2006 11:54:24
From: Eric Chomko
Subject: Re: The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification



Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
> Eric Chomko wrote:
>
> >> The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification
> >>
> >> I have cast this in stone, or silicon, or electromagnetism at least.
> >>
> >> You may as well get used to it, I'm the decider now.
> >
> > I like you better as the mad scientist in search of science rather than
> > as a meglomaniac.
>
> You've got to admit, though, it's a fairly good scale.

Yes, it is. It makes me wonder about the generic similarities of things
of mass in the solar system based upon size and location. Surely the
larger objects will tend to make themselves into a ball where the
smaller ones don't. And depending on the proximity of the sun WRT an
object has obvious thermal aspects. IOW, if you were to make something
the size of Jupiter at 5 AU, it would very much be like Jupiter. Same
with asteroids and the various moons. So, as dissimilar as all the
Jovian satellites appear WRT one another, they are also very much alike
as compared to other objects of different size and location.

Eric

>
> Mercury is close on the borderline of Lunar and Mars massed planets.
>
> But nevermind, soon we will have billions and billions to classify.
>
> Unless NASA builds the stick, then we get nothing.
>
> >> http://cosmic.lifeform.org



 
Date: 21 Aug 2006 10:55:51
From: Eric Chomko
Subject: Re: The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification


Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
> http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=166
>
> The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification
>
> I have cast this in stone, or silicon, or electromagnetism at least.
>
> You may as well get used to it, I'm the decider now.

I like you better as the mad scientist in search of science rather than
as a meglomaniac. The latter doesn't suit you, and like an adolesant
with their first puff of pot, who knows where it could lead? Just say
no!

Eric

>
> http://cosmic.lifeform.org



  
Date: 21 Aug 2006 13:01:09
From: Thomas Lee Elifritz
Subject: Re: The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification


Eric Chomko wrote:

>> The Meghar Scale - Planetary Mass Classification
>>
>> I have cast this in stone, or silicon, or electromagnetism at least.
>>
>> You may as well get used to it, I'm the decider now.
>
> I like you better as the mad scientist in search of science rather than
> as a meglomaniac.

You've got to admit, though, it's a fairly good scale.

Mercury is close on the borderline of Lunar and Mars massed planets.

But nevermind, soon we will have billions and billions to classify.

Unless NASA builds the stick, then we get nothing.

>> http://cosmic.lifeform.org