Talk:Outer Solar System

As a personal aside, not only am I not a professional (just an avid reader) astronomer, Mr. Brown is not the only one with a new addition to his family - see http://homepage.mac.com/smkolins/Adoption/adoption.html

I suppose some mention of Bode's Law (ref) also belongs and the history of Planet X(ref) as humanity has developed the idea of the Outer Solar System might have a place.--Smkolins 14:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doesnt this violate the "no original research" clause on Wikipedia? If you want to research this, get an account and make this a subpage instead of an article. Thank you. -- Riffsyphon1024 19:03, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

original research

I suppose some of it may.

SInce it's in the business of defining something that was bareluy defined before I suppose much of it could be considered new - but at the same time people do have a nebulous idea of the outer solar system, and listing things that apply to the category should be included, but perhaps the more speculative aspects should be minimized.

I'm also very new to wikipedia and still figuring out how to deal with these options. For example I have an account I think. However I don't wish to worthiness of this page to be conditioned on my unworthiness.--Smkolins 14:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's nothing against you personally. I'm certain you would make a good Wikipedian, and I only recommend that if any researching is done, that at least you have a separate place to do so. I myself have been analyzing the outer solar system, and have tryed to make orbital paths for some of the KBOs and other planetoids. It's more of a private project right now, but I hope in the future I can give this assembled information out to the public in full. Understand where I'm coming from? -- Riffsyphon1024 15:54, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

it still seems a place that deserves some focus

The debate over whether or not a stellar close pass happened a while back is picking up steam and perhaps should be noted. See http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1219/p02s02-stss.html

The Outer Solar System is a place distinct from the general solar system which is almost completely about the Inner Solar System and or the region of the Giant Planets. It deserves it's own focus, of course linked with other regions. In the realm of these other discussions, the Outer Solar System is always a place worth only a line or two, and almost always in isolation from other comments (might talk about Oort or Kuiper Belt but not heliopause, or interstellar medium and galactic arms/clouds but not scattered disk objects....)

Additionally several parts of what are mentioned in their own right are independent of the Solar System entry. If anything they might be subsections of this article - especially once people actively take to building this one.

One thing needed is a section that speaks of the idea of "outer" expanding as originally viewing the Gas planets as far away from the inner solar system has graduated to being the middle solar system, now that we know much more about the farther regions of the solar system.--Smkolins 14:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've been working on the Solar System article for some time, and have attempted to address many of your concerns. The Heliopause, Local Fluff, Local Bubble and Orion Arm are all now mentioned there, and the Outer Solar System's various constituents are each given their own paragraphs. In fact, this page contains a number of insights and references from which I feel the Solar System article could benefit, and I was wondering what you felt about merging the two. Serendipodous 15:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]