I understand and completely agree wiyh your point except there are no sub categories of planets. This move was specially made (by a super minority of voters at a last minute end of the conference vote) to keep Earth’s classification as a planet more important. First of all, and frankly insane, Pluto is not under the classifocation of a planet. It is a dwarf planet that, contrary to logic, is NOT a sub category of a planet. If you look at the Euler diagram on the wiki page for dwarf planets you can see they specifically made sure planets were a stand alone category. Sub categories like you mentioned make perfect sense but would slightly diminish Earth’s “special” classification.
I would love for all of the bodies to be under a large hierarchical classification as you suggested but oddly they are not. It’s disjointed and I think done in a way specifically to spite others in a bit of a power fit.
Ahh, more a complaint about the International Astronomical Union (IAU), not science in general. No objections to that complaint. Your comment just kinda read as if it were all science and/or astrophysicists.
I understand and completely agree wiyh your point except there are no sub categories of planets. This move was specially made (by a super minority of voters at a last minute end of the conference vote) to keep Earth’s classification as a planet more important. First of all, and frankly insane, Pluto is not under the classifocation of a planet. It is a dwarf planet that, contrary to logic, is NOT a sub category of a planet. If you look at the Euler diagram on the wiki page for dwarf planets you can see they specifically made sure planets were a stand alone category. Sub categories like you mentioned make perfect sense but would slightly diminish Earth’s “special” classification.
I would love for all of the bodies to be under a large hierarchical classification as you suggested but oddly they are not. It’s disjointed and I think done in a way specifically to spite others in a bit of a power fit.
Ahh, more a complaint about the International Astronomical Union (IAU), not science in general. No objections to that complaint. Your comment just kinda read as if it were all science and/or astrophysicists.