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Ice dwarf or plutonian object? Which one should be the article name?-- Sonjaaa 19:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I’m surprised you write staff without a single reference. I’m puzzled what is the reason to ‘merge’ the information from the well document, formal discussion on one term with the article on another term, sometimes used, especially in popular literature but the one which is hardly used in TNO literature (as far as I can judge). Please try to find a reference to this term in the dozens of papers quoted in our TNO-related article. Maybe you'd find a couple but it is hardly a widely used term. If the term is neither widely used nor official what is the point of creating the confusion by merging? Why did you delete the graphs showing the layman what was on offer and how it changed? A puzzled Eurocommuter 20:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I thought ice dwarf only referred to one of the minor roles in the Snow White sequence of the Disney 'Holiday on Ice' spectacular. -- Wetman 02:41, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
This article really got messed up. Somebody identified "ice dwarf" with the term "pluton" or "plutonian object". This is entirely incorrect -- "pluton" was a proposed name for a type of what is now called Dwarf planet, but only a few ice dwarfs are dwarf planets, and at least one dwarf planet is not an ice dwarf. Ice dwarfs seem to me to be an odd synonym for TNO, but the text of the article obscured that. I reverted it to the last (pre-merge) form of Ice dwarfs, a stub that existed before the erroneous equation of ice dwarf and pluton. However, I don't think that it really needs to exist as an independent article. If it were to be merged with another article, very little of it would survive as it is poorly sourced. RandomCritic 16:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
The article states that ice dwarves have more ice than asteroids, and then lists Triton as an example. However, the Triton article says that Triton is estimated to be 25% ice (doesn't say whether by mass or by volume), whereas Ceres is estimated to be 30-60% ice by volume, and perhaps 25% by mass. Pluto is supposed to be 30-50% ice. Are we just assuming that something far out is icy, and something closer in is rocky? kwami ( talk) 09:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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Ice dwarf or plutonian object? Which one should be the article name?-- Sonjaaa 19:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I’m surprised you write staff without a single reference. I’m puzzled what is the reason to ‘merge’ the information from the well document, formal discussion on one term with the article on another term, sometimes used, especially in popular literature but the one which is hardly used in TNO literature (as far as I can judge). Please try to find a reference to this term in the dozens of papers quoted in our TNO-related article. Maybe you'd find a couple but it is hardly a widely used term. If the term is neither widely used nor official what is the point of creating the confusion by merging? Why did you delete the graphs showing the layman what was on offer and how it changed? A puzzled Eurocommuter 20:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I thought ice dwarf only referred to one of the minor roles in the Snow White sequence of the Disney 'Holiday on Ice' spectacular. -- Wetman 02:41, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
This article really got messed up. Somebody identified "ice dwarf" with the term "pluton" or "plutonian object". This is entirely incorrect -- "pluton" was a proposed name for a type of what is now called Dwarf planet, but only a few ice dwarfs are dwarf planets, and at least one dwarf planet is not an ice dwarf. Ice dwarfs seem to me to be an odd synonym for TNO, but the text of the article obscured that. I reverted it to the last (pre-merge) form of Ice dwarfs, a stub that existed before the erroneous equation of ice dwarf and pluton. However, I don't think that it really needs to exist as an independent article. If it were to be merged with another article, very little of it would survive as it is poorly sourced. RandomCritic 16:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
The article states that ice dwarves have more ice than asteroids, and then lists Triton as an example. However, the Triton article says that Triton is estimated to be 25% ice (doesn't say whether by mass or by volume), whereas Ceres is estimated to be 30-60% ice by volume, and perhaps 25% by mass. Pluto is supposed to be 30-50% ice. Are we just assuming that something far out is icy, and something closer in is rocky? kwami ( talk) 09:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)