Talk:Discovery and exploration of the Solar System

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This is intended to be the lead article in a new featured topic. Other inclusions in this topic:


 * Timeline of solar system astronomy
 * Timeline of Solar System exploration
 * History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses
 * Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons
 * Heliocentrism
 * Manned spaceflight

Isn't the article basically ready for GAN? Nergaal (talk) 21:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

physical link between the Earth and the heavens ?
Really?: Then, in 1859, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, using the newly invented spectroscope, examined the spectral signature of the Sun and discovered that it was composed of the same elements as existed on Earth, establishing for the first time a physical link between the Earth and the heavens. --Pinky sl (talk) 08:21, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Inclusion of Aryabhata
The inclusion of Aryabhata as an advocate of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is specious at best. According to reference 30 in Wikipedia's own article on Aryabhata, the published work speculated that Indian astronomers (not Aryabhata) advocated heliocentric view. The references in the linked article do not directly support the statement in this article, which says,
 * "While the Indian mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata ... had speculated on a heliocentric reordering of the cosmos, ..."

The Aryabhata article itself also states that this viewpoint has been rebutted, and "Aryabhata's system was not explicitly heliocentric." I am challenging specific inclusion of "Indian mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata" on the basis that it is not clearly supported, per the guidelines on references. --Srwalden (talk) 19:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Timeline visualization
Added an infographic about every probe that left geocentric orbit to explore objects in the Solar System from the beginning to nowadays. The main source for the picture is the archive on the NASA website, and I also consulted the wiki page of every single mission. It contains info about the names of the probes, their main destinations, their type, their years of trip, or activity, their encounters on the way and if the missions were considered successful or failures. FraPado86 (talk) 15:06, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

The "Examples of missions" needs data
Actualy it's USA-only (except Rosetta), and for the outer solar system it's correct, but for the inner planets (from March to Mercury) it's missing a lot of data, specially from the URSS on Venus and it's Venera program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.184.198.58 (talk) 16:16, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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