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Addnl refs?

Regarding the request for additional sources and references, what else is there to say beyond the already existing note? It's as if one asked for additional references for the statement that « two falls betwen one and three »...

Urhixidur (talk) 07:44, 2008 June 2 (UTC)

I agree. Referring to a primary source here falls within what's allowed by WP:OR:

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To the extent that part of an article relies on a primary source, it should:

only make descriptive claims about the information found in the primary source, the accuracy and applicability of which is easily verifiable by any reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge, and
make no analytic, synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or evaluative claims about the information found in the primary source.

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Phil Bridger (talk) 12:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed table expansion

Should absolute magnitude, size, and possibly observational data be added to the tables such as in the Apohele article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apohele_asteroid ScottM84 (talk) 22:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Absolute magnitude makes sense, and observational data possibly. But are there any good size measurements of any of them? --JorisvS (talk) 12:27, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If size were added, there are two possibilities I see for size estimates. 1) Use a site like this to convert absolute magnitudes to a size using an assumed albedo (which seems fair enough since so many asteroid articles use an assumed albedo). 2) If a specific estimate isn't required, the ESA's NEODyS system has size ranges listed for many of the objects in the database.

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 [[Apohele_asteroid|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apohele_asteroid]] [[User:ScottM84|ScottM84]] ([[User talk:ScottM84|talk]]) 22:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 :Absolute magnitude makes sense, and observational data possibly. But are there any good size measurements of any of them? --[[User:JorisvS|JorisvS]] ([[User talk:JorisvS|talk]]) 12:27, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
+:If size were added, there are two possibilities I see for size estimates. 1) Use a site like this to convert absolute magnitudes to a size using an assumed albedo (which seems fair enough since so many asteroid articles use an assumed albedo). 2) If a specific estimate isn't required, the ESA's NEODyS system has size ranges listed for many of the objects in the database.