Talk:Eris (dwarf planet)/Archive 7

message: I know the suggestion that Pluto was named after a cartoon is a joke,
but I just looked it up, and Pluto the ex-planet was discovered in 1930, and the cartoon dog
was created in 1930 as well.  I don't know their exact birthdays, but they could be twins.
However, they were not named after each other, they were named after George Foreman, I mean 
they were both named after the Greek god of the underworld, and also after Percival Lowell.
That is, it was not allowed to name the planet after a person, but the name Pluto was chosen partly because
the first two letters are Lowell's initials.  Presumably, the dog was only named after the god, not after
Percival LowellWood Monkey 09:48, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This page is about Eris, not Pluto. Serendipodous 21:29, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separated at birth? 

message: I found this 2014 DPS meeting abstract by Rabinowitz and Owainati, who state that Eris and Dysnomia are unambiguously mutually tidally locked to each other, in a way similar to how Pluto and Charon are both tidally locked to each other. Older published sources (which I have already added to the article's infobox) state that Eris has a rotation period around 25 to 28 hours, although Rabinowitz did not mention anything regarding athese older studies. Although there is no full paper about this, should this be included to the article even though the different values contradict each other? Nrco0e  06:00, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This really should be on Talk:Dysnomia (moon), but we have a pretty solid source (albeit an old one) for Dysnomia's orbital period, so if you want to counter it with a more up to date source, it should be just as solid. Serendipodous 21:34, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Eris's rotation synchronous with Dysnomia's orbital period? 

message: This Featured article was promoted in 2007, and has fallen out of FA standards.  There is a good deal of uncited text, unresolved questions on talk, and a MOS review is needed.  Unless someone is willing/able to bring this article to standard, it should be submitted to Featured article review.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  20:01, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I can fix the citation issues but I don't really know what you mean by unresolved questions. Many of the discussions are years old and were resolved ages ago. Serendipodous 21:24, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I didn't check them closely.  Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk)  23:57, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Refs added. Serendipodous 23:18, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Awesome, thanks, .  Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk)  00:59, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article review needed 

message: "Unlike the eight planets, whose orbits all lie roughly in the same plane as the Earth's, Eris's orbit is highly inclined: It is tilted at an angle of about 44 degrees to the ecliptic"
Mercury is inclined 7 degrees, double or more the next most inclined planet, so "roughly in the same plane as the Earth's" doesn't go so well with all the 8 planets, the wording should be changed to => "most of the planets" for example. احمد الليبي (talk) 22:24, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems fine as-is. 44 is a lot more than 7, which is the point of the sentence. No need to overcomplicate such an introductory-level statement. VQuakr (talk) 00:53, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orbit