• Squorlple@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    It’s like … mythology or something, and the planet(oid) being anthropomorphized.

    I mean, the planet(oid)s are named after gods.

    The personification of its classification is probably related to the exclusivity of the title and “bigger is better” mentality. Since every life form has a taxonomy for domain to species, there’s not really an exclusivity to each echelon. I don’t imagine anybody really thinks like this meme below, for example:

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      8 months ago

      This makes me want to devise a tiered, inclusive classification scheme for space objects.

      We could start with orbital objects, any object that normally experiences regular, periodic orbits with minimal deviation. So, everything in the galaxy would be one except potentially Sag A, and the galaxy itself. Perhaps the next branching subsets could be things undergoing continuous fusion somewhere in their body or not?