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article-ize edit
This should be turned from a redirect into an article. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 06:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- It's 2012 and it's still a redirect page. Keeping it as such, I more than doubled the collision events listed and added appropriate references to the articles that describe the events and satellites. I'm leaving the article-ization to someone else. OhioFred (talk) 18:25, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
On 22:34, 2013 March 19, removed the disambiguation tag. This page is on its way to being an article. --OhioFred (talk) 20:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Classification edit
Classified the satellite collisions as follows:
- Collision -- an accidental collision event
- Low-speed collision -- an accidental collision event with matched orbits
- Destruction -- a deliberately-caused collision event
Natural satellites edit
"To date, there have been no observed collisions between natural satellites of any Solar System planet or moon." Well, yes, but this sentence has a glaring omission -- what about natural satellites of the Sun? Shoemaker-Levy, for example? User:R'n'B (talk) 20:32, 04 May 2013
- That's an interesting point, R'n'B, but bodies orbiting stellar-class objects are not considered to be satellites in the practical sense. They are commonly considered to be planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, or comets. They are satellites only in the strictest orbital mechanics viewpoint. The Shoemaker-Levy event is commonly considered to be a cometary impact with a planet. To avoid muddying the waters, it's best to leave those events out of the picture.
- And, to be realistic, we may never observe any honest-to-goodness natural satellite collisions other than in the Saturnian ring system. They are just too rare. (By the way, you forgot to sign your comment, so I provided an assist there.) --18:47, 6 May 2013 (UTC)OhioFred (talk)