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In its article Quaoar zet Pluto op zijn plaats (Quaoar puts Pluto in its place) Eos, a Belgian scientific magazine, mentions Scattered Disk Objects, with capitalization. It also mentions the abbreviation SDO. I'd like to know the reason(s) why the capitalization is supposed to be wrong -- if it is, shouldn't the abbreviation be sdo? Of course, a Belgian magazine (even if it is scientific and cooperates with Scientific American) is hardly an authority on language and spelling :-) D.D. 19:37 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

I think the capitalization of the phrase in that magazine probably was simply a matter of conforming to that magazine's style conventions. Wikipedia also has style conventions, which eschew capitalization in titles except for the first letter and for proper names or other generally capitalized words. It is commonplace to capitalize letters in abbreviations of this kind when the words are not capitalized when they are not abbreviated. Michael Hardy 21:08 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

AFAIK there is nothing wrong with excentric. According to my dictionary it is accepted as a variation of eccentric in technical senses. D.D. 19:48 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Diagrams

The diagrams added here (and cubewanos) are modest first drafts. Initially, I used a Java program and saved the graphics as jpeg but the resulting quality was poor. Switched to generating svg. Should have used different colours for Kuiper belt and SDO. Eurocommuter 01:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extremes

Check out this list of damocloid asteroids. 2005 SB₂₂₃, with an inclination of 91.4 degrees orbits very nearly vertically. 2002 XU₉₃ is inclined at 78 degrees, which means that it is not, in fact, the most inclined object in the solar system. Several of these Damocloids have inclinations close to 180 degrees, which gives them retrograde orbits very close to the plane of the solar system. shaggy 20:11, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

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