Timeline for Is the point of this paper to say that Pluto's status as a planet should have been handled scientifically, rather than by a vote?
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| May 12, 2019 at 17:38 | comment | added | Stuart Robbins | @DavidHammen - As a working planetary scientist, no. If you're talking about solar system dynamics, okay it's a subset of astrophysics. But the bulk of planetary science is closer to geology and geophysics than astrophysics. That's what happened when we got close to Pluto: It turned from an astrophysical object to a geophysical object once it was resolved. Please don't tell me what my field is and is not. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 15:06 | comment | added | David Hammen | @StuartRobbins - Planetary science is a subcategory of astrophysics. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 20:01 | comment | added | Stuart Robbins | David— Icarus isn't a top astrophysics journal for the simple fact that it is not an astrophysics journal. It's a planetary science journal, owned by the Division of Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society (though published by Elsevier). It is one of the two primary long-form-article planetary science journals in existence today (the other being the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research— Planets). | |
| Sep 18, 2018 at 22:31 | comment | added | David Hammen | Icarus is a scientific journal that specializes in papers on the solar system. Given this narrow focus, it is a rather highly regarded and highly impactful journal. It's not amongst the very top astrophysics journals, but it is close to to it. The narrow focus inevitably keeps it from being one of topmost journals in astrophysics. | |
| Sep 18, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | FJC | What is Icarus exactly? My field is nothing to do with asteroids/planets/the solar system so that is jargon to me. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 15:02 | history | answered | FJC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |