Talk:Centaur (small Solar System body)

Curps: Good edit on comet/asteroid mixture of 2060 Chiron. It looks like the CFA prefers to list SDOs and Centaurs in reverse chronological order, for some reason. There is a de facto standard for listing objects in Wikipedia in decreasing diameter (see Kuiper belt, Natural satellite, first table in List of noteworthy asteroids) or sometimes chronological order (see second table in List of noteworthy asteroids).. I was trying to not use a third ordering. It would be cool to get diameters on these objects, by the way. -- hike395 05:17, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In this case, I imagined future maintainers of the page would click on the external link to look up any updated info. For lists of more than a few elements, it can be very confusing to compare them if one is in the opposite order of the other (assuming the list on the Wikipedia page might grow considerably). So that's basically the reason I kept it that way. I don't know the diameters of the other objects, maybe the info is out there somewhere. -- Curps 05:45, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

That makes sense. -- hike395

Removed to where?

"Centaurs are not in stable orbits and will eventually be removed by the giant planets." Removed to where? Could someone who knows their stuff clarify this sentence? The Singing Badger 16:15, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)