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The polar zone of the Pluto is the areas where the Sun never reaches the zenith or overhead point at any time of the orbital periodand Table 1 in the linked source, which defines the polar zone as the area where the
Sun never reaches the overhead point at any time during orbital year. In fact, much of the article appears to be an expansion of Table 1 into prose. I know that sometimes it seems like there just aren't many different ways to report flat scientific facts, but this needs at least another going-over before it is ready for the spotlight. If improved, however, it would be suitable for DYK, perhaps with a catchier hook like, ... that technically, most of Pluto is tropical? XOR'easter ( talk) 22:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
I will look at it today or tomorrow. If I don't get to it by Monday, I probably never will, and I wouldn't object to closing it then.It now being a few minutes before the end of Tuesday, I'm posting the icon for closure now. (The article was written as part of a course, and that editor hasn't been on Wikipedia since then, over a month ago.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:53, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
The tropics are said to be permanently 80% of surface area and sometimes more, while the permanent arctic regions are 40% of surface area. Clearly there has to be some permanent overlap, as the DYK hook in fact suggests. The individual definitions in the article do allow for this. However, the article text does not make it explicit. The additional "tropical arctic" zone, while canon, may actually confuse the issue further, since it seems to be a derivative zone (subzone?) rather than a fully separated zone. (In this sense, polar might be considered a subzone of the arctic region -- although with the orbital angle, there might possibly be polar regions which are not also arctic regions?) Should it be explained explicitly that the core three zones are not in any way intended to be completely exclusive of one another? I hesitate to do it myself, in case I have misunderstood. - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 ( talk) 01:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 19:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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Created by A. Emraan ( talk). Nominated by Fishal ( talk) at 17:12, 11 April 2020 (UTC).
The polar zone of the Pluto is the areas where the Sun never reaches the zenith or overhead point at any time of the orbital periodand Table 1 in the linked source, which defines the polar zone as the area where the
Sun never reaches the overhead point at any time during orbital year. In fact, much of the article appears to be an expansion of Table 1 into prose. I know that sometimes it seems like there just aren't many different ways to report flat scientific facts, but this needs at least another going-over before it is ready for the spotlight. If improved, however, it would be suitable for DYK, perhaps with a catchier hook like, ... that technically, most of Pluto is tropical? XOR'easter ( talk) 22:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
I will look at it today or tomorrow. If I don't get to it by Monday, I probably never will, and I wouldn't object to closing it then.It now being a few minutes before the end of Tuesday, I'm posting the icon for closure now. (The article was written as part of a course, and that editor hasn't been on Wikipedia since then, over a month ago.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:53, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
The tropics are said to be permanently 80% of surface area and sometimes more, while the permanent arctic regions are 40% of surface area. Clearly there has to be some permanent overlap, as the DYK hook in fact suggests. The individual definitions in the article do allow for this. However, the article text does not make it explicit. The additional "tropical arctic" zone, while canon, may actually confuse the issue further, since it seems to be a derivative zone (subzone?) rather than a fully separated zone. (In this sense, polar might be considered a subzone of the arctic region -- although with the orbital angle, there might possibly be polar regions which are not also arctic regions?) Should it be explained explicitly that the core three zones are not in any way intended to be completely exclusive of one another? I hesitate to do it myself, in case I have misunderstood. - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 ( talk) 01:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)