Questions tagged [classification]
Questions regarding grouping objects together based on one or more shared property.
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What physical features determine if a planet is a major, minor or dwarf planet?
Like many, when I was growing up, we always were taught, hence always learned that there were 9 planets. However, recently, decisions were made and all of a sudden there were 8 major planets and a ...
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Planets classification by density
In our Solar system, the density of major planets varies from 0.7 g/cm3 (Saturn) to 5.5 g/cm3 (Earth).
For exoplanets, the density varies from very low (0.03 g/cm3 for Kepler-51x) to very high (77.7 ...
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Is Ceres in the inner solar system or outer solar system?
Do we consider the dwarf planet Ceres to be in the inner solar system or outer solar system (or possibly neither / in between). It is located within the asteroid belt, but is the asteroid belt part ...
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Grammar of stellar classification
How to write G2V correctly (I mean space)? I saw in articles $ G\,2\,V$ and $G2\,V$, on the internet webside it is usually $ G2V$.
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Why have brown dwarf classes been dubbed L, T and Y?
The classes used to categorize stars (O, B, A, F, G, K, M) are in a bizarre order for historical reasons. Stars were labeled based on the spectral lines that were visible, then the categories were put ...
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Is there an alternative (potentially easier to understand) Euler diagram of the new solar system body classification?
note: This question is asking for a representation of the astronomical classification scheme now used for solar system bodies as established (presumably) by the Working Group for Planetary System ...
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