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Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: JUJUBEEM on Oct 10, 2012 There is of course a word for "planet", but that doesn't cover large asteroids, Pluto or, say, Ganymede. I tend to say something like "heavenly body" or "world", but it seems unsatisfactory. Have you got a good term for it?
Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: askal on Oct 10, 2012 balls (rockballs, iceballs, gasballs...)
this nomenclature makes jokes about uranus twice as funny Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: smmrwds on Oct 10, 2012 If the object is in orbit around another, it is called a satellite. There is no distinguishing terminology for a satellite that is spherical versus one that is non-spherical... although, if the object has considerable mass compared to its primary, and the orbit is distant enough so that the barycenter of the system is outside of both bodies, the dual objects might be referred to as a binary planet. The Earth-Moon system could eventually qualify, and the Pluto-Charon system (semantics aside... regarding dwarf planets) do qualify.
Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: FISH0818 on Oct 10, 2012 swimmers
Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: askollmeyer on Oct 10, 2012 It must be Planet.
You said Large, that excludes the moon and Pluto they are not large Otherwise it must be Large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium Title: Is there a good generic name for large non-luminous bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium? Post by: Julaaro on Oct 10, 2012 I propose "dirt".
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