I mean, you can choose to define things however you want for your personal headcanon.
But for communication to work, people need to agree upon meanings. Iām guessing you donāt have a PhD in astrophysics, so your opinions are very unlikely to sway the consensus opinion on how these things are defined. And itās their definitions that most lay people are going to take our cues from.
But even from the perspective of trying to come up with your own definitionsā¦itās rather poor practice to define things by presupposing your desired outcome. They didnāt define a planet vs dwarf planet by reference to Pluto, even though their desired goal was to exclude Pluto. They found actual criteria and used those. The definitions youāre giving, by stating āstellar class with Saturn at the boundaryā does not work as a very good definition. Though again, youāre free to use that for yourself if you wantā¦so long as you understand you will have severe difficulty communicating with others.
Iām guessing you donāt have a PhD in astrophysics,
Most of the thesis is written, and the definitions I am giving are common among my colleagues. This is the growing consensus post-Cassini/Juno.
Iām not choosing these definitions with any presuppositions. Iām using Saturn as a useful marker of the boundary because of its hybrid internal structure as revealed by kronoseismology.
I mean, you can choose to define things however you want for your personal headcanon.
But for communication to work, people need to agree upon meanings. Iām guessing you donāt have a PhD in astrophysics, so your opinions are very unlikely to sway the consensus opinion on how these things are defined. And itās their definitions that most lay people are going to take our cues from.
But even from the perspective of trying to come up with your own definitionsā¦itās rather poor practice to define things by presupposing your desired outcome. They didnāt define a planet vs dwarf planet by reference to Pluto, even though their desired goal was to exclude Pluto. They found actual criteria and used those. The definitions youāre giving, by stating āstellar class with Saturn at the boundaryā does not work as a very good definition. Though again, youāre free to use that for yourself if you wantā¦so long as you understand you will have severe difficulty communicating with others.
Most of the thesis is written, and the definitions I am giving are common among my colleagues. This is the growing consensus post-Cassini/Juno.
Iām not choosing these definitions with any presuppositions. Iām using Saturn as a useful marker of the boundary because of its hybrid internal structure as revealed by kronoseismology.