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There are new scientific developments regarding discoveries of internal liquid oceans in the far reaches of our Solar System. Much of the current scientific literature now uses “ocean planets”, "ocean worlds" or “water worlds" as synonyms. The current understanding and terminology does not limit such clasification to a surface ocean, but includes ice bodies with an internal ocean (see Ocean Worlds Exploration Program at NASA). Another example is in this paper: [1]. I will be updating this article accordingly. Any help, feedback and corrections are welcome. Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 15:32, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Since the find of inner oceans in moons and possibly in Pluto (a Dwarf planet), Ceres, and other bodies not classified as planets, I think the name should be moved/changed to Ocean world which has always been a synonym anyway, but now it is more appropriate. Comments? Support/oppose? Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 00:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
I strongly agree, and moved the page, given that there have been no objections in over 2 years. Mdewman6 ( talk) 23:04, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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There are new scientific developments regarding discoveries of internal liquid oceans in the far reaches of our Solar System. Much of the current scientific literature now uses “ocean planets”, "ocean worlds" or “water worlds" as synonyms. The current understanding and terminology does not limit such clasification to a surface ocean, but includes ice bodies with an internal ocean (see Ocean Worlds Exploration Program at NASA). Another example is in this paper: [1]. I will be updating this article accordingly. Any help, feedback and corrections are welcome. Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 15:32, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Since the find of inner oceans in moons and possibly in Pluto (a Dwarf planet), Ceres, and other bodies not classified as planets, I think the name should be moved/changed to Ocean world which has always been a synonym anyway, but now it is more appropriate. Comments? Support/oppose? Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 00:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
I strongly agree, and moved the page, given that there have been no objections in over 2 years. Mdewman6 ( talk) 23:04, 1 May 2020 (UTC)