Talk:Planetary differentiation

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2021 and 7 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Astronomy Rules. Peer reviewers: Marie Andry.

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When the sun ignited

Although this phrase can be found in the scientific literature, the intended readers are people who actually know what that means. There is a popular misconception that "ignited" refers to large-scale nuclear fusion, which happens about 30 million years later when the sun enter the Main Sequence, or when the sun becomes intensely bright, which happens long before it begins spewing anything out.

What we're dealing with here is the transition from protostar to star, which occurs when its net mass stops increasing.

Zyxwv99 (talk) 19:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Merge Proposal

I am proposing to merge core-mantle differentiation into this article since core-mantle differentiation is essentially the same as planetary differentiation (or at the very least a subset of it) and much of the information is, or at least should be, common between the two. Core-mantle differentiation is the better written/more complete article, but planetary differentiation is the more complete term so I am proposing to merge them here. I will wait around one week (until about 16 October) and then start the process of merging. @AlexInMetal: since you wrote most of the core-mantle differentiation article back in February/March 2019 I would particularly be interested in your input. Physdragon (talk) 15:23, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Weak oppose on the merge, given that Core–mantle differentiation is an independently notable topic, even though it is a subtopic of Planetary differentiation. Klbrain (talk) 20:09, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Closing, given the absence of support for the merge. Klbrain (talk) 12:16, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Resolved

School Project

Hello to all that may be reading this. I am working on this article for a project. I am new to Wikipedia. Planetary Differentiation sounds interesting so far. I hope to find more information on this article soon.Astronomy Rules (talk) 18:48, 19 October 2021 (UTC)