• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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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?