Gnargenox wrote:

Source of the post deserty = Xeric

hahah! I like when I learn new scientific terms. Botanic terms, right? I see them also in italian. Xeric, mesic and hydric: very dry,  moisty, extremely moisty.

JCandeias wrote:

Source of the post Maybe dry ices would be a good designation for all those cryo-ices in other languages as well?

mmh, dry ice as far as I know is used exclusively for CO₂, using it for other compounds could lead to wrong assumptions regarding the composition. Cryo-vulcans being called dry-vulcans could infer CO₂ lava flows, when it could be something else.

HarbingerDawn wrote:

Some exoplanets (atmosphere and surface classes are fake of course)

Kepler-10 b	torrid airless pyrooceanic rocky superterra	torrid tidally locked rocky superterra with magma oceans
COROT-7 b	torrid hypobaric pyrooceanic rocky superferria	torrid tidally locked rocky superferria with magma oceans
55 Cancri e	torrid hypobaric pyrooceanic carbid supercarbonia	torrid tidally locked carbid supercarbonia with magma oceans
51 Pegasi b	torrid jupiter	torrid tidally locked gas giant
TRAPPIST-1 b	warm hypobaric desertic rocky terra	warm tidally locked rocky terra
TRAPPIST-1 c	warm hyperbaric desertic rocky ferria	warm tidally locked rocky ferria
TRAPPIST-1 d	temperate mesobaric laky rocky terra	temperate tidally locked rocky terra with water lakes
TRAPPIST-1 e	temperate mesobaric oceanic watery terra	temperate tidally locked rocky terra with water seas
TRAPPIST-1 f	cool mesobaric oceanic watery aquaria	cool tidally locked oceania
TRAPPIST-1 g	cool hyperbaric glacial icy terra	cool tidally locked rocky terra with water glaciers
TRAPPIST-1 h	cold mesobaric icy aquaria	cold tidally locked icy glacia
Kepler-22 b	temperate ultrabaric watery aquaria	temperate oceania
HD 10180 c	torrid neptune	torrid tidally locked ice giant
HD 10180 h	cool jupiter	cool gas giant
Proxima b	cool glacial rocky terra	cool tidally locked rocky terra with water glaciers
Kepler-52 b	torrid chthonia	torrid tidally locked chthonia
GD 66 b	cold chthonia	cold chthonia
Osiris	torrid subjupiter	torrid gas giant

nice, but i would say proxima b is temperate

alfa015 wrote:

Source of the post nice, buy i would say proxima b is temperate

We still don't know if there's an atmosphere, that's only one of possible scenarios. Cirax did some nice propositions about it.

Mosfet wrote:

Source of the post Cryo-vulcans being called dry-vulcans could infer CO2 lava flows, when it could be something else.

I'm not suggesting to change the terminology regarding cryovolcanism, mind you: that's a well-established term and shouldn't be changed.

Oh, no, I just wanted to use an analogy, sorry.

Normobaric is the term for air pressure at sea level on Earth, rather than mesobaric.

Gnargenox wrote:

Source of the post Normobaric is the term for air pressure at sea level on Earth, rather than mesobaric.

Mesobaric isn't being used to specifically describe Earth sea level pressure in this case, so it's appropriate.

SpaceEngineer wrote:

I don't like "jovian" and "neptunian", because they are adjectives. This will make my grammar code even more complicated. And then we must change "terra" to "terrestrial" as well as and all other classes.

In Russian, is it possible to use the same noun for "a person from Jupiter" to mean "a planet like Jupiter"? They would both be "jovian" in English and the Romance languages.

Julian wrote:

Source of the post In Russian, is it possible to use the same noun for "a person from Jupiter" to mean "a planet like Jupiter"? They would both be "jovian" in English and the Romance languages.

It is possible, but not used in literature. We using either terms "gas giant" or "jupiter". For terrestrial planets, "earth-like" is used sometimes, but I never saw a "jupiter-like" term.

I think "earth-like" is overused, IMO. "Earth-like" should really just refer to terras with bodies of water, with or without life. In my mind, "Earth-like" implies a planet that is at least somewhat habitable by Earth standards, rather than a venusian desert with crushingly high g's and thick toxic air.

I told about Russian. Word "землеподобный" cold be translated literally as "earth-like", but corresponds in sense with "terrestrial" ("rocky planet"). This is for question by Julian.

Firstly, I thought about an alternative to "jupiter" and "neptune". What do you think about the terms "Neptunia" and "Jovia"?

Also, I found some translation problems to Spanish of several terms.

- "Airless" can only be "sin aire", which are two words.
- "Biohazardous" doesn't have a direct translation. It might be "biopeligroso", but it wouldn't be quite right.
- Neither does "laky" have a translation. I could think of the term "lagoso", but sounds funny.

Apart from that, most of the problems (with gramatical gender, word order, etc) can be solved, as shown in previous posts.

Zymoox wrote:

Source of the post Neither does "laky" have a translation. I could think of the term "lagoso", but sounds funny

if laky should really be lacustrine, "pertaining to lakes", shouldn't the term "lacustre" cover this, same as italian?
Italian also doesn't have a single word for "airless", I toyed a bit with alpha privative forms like anaerobic, they just don't convey the exact meaning. Well I guess for some languages there's no escape.
Same for "Biohazardous". Biohazard is translated with Biorischio but the adjective form doesn't exist, substituted by "biotossico". Interestingly the seemingly same "biotoxic" has another meaning.

Mosfet wrote:

if laky should really be lacustrine, "pertaining to lakes", shouldn't the term "lacustre" cover this, same as italian?

"Lacustre" sounds somewhat obscure in Spanish; but you're right, it's the correct term.

Also, I think I have some alternatives to "biopeligroso". You see, in English that word should means "harmful to life", but in Spanish it's more like "potentially harmful to life".
So I thought about making up words to show the original meaning. I got "biodañino" and "bionocivo" (lit. 'bioharmful')

I suggest keeping the terms effective yet simple. E.g. "very hot" over "torrid". If you want your audience/player base as broad as possible (to put an example: I still love to use SE to educate primary school students), people should be able to at least understand the majority of the terms used. I like to see SE being directed to scientists, but also to those who want to indulge themselves into the vastness of space, but are not as familiar with the quite difficult terms used.

TL;DR: keeps terms accessible, don't go too big on using difficult words. Or maybe use an option between scientific and "common" terms.

That being said, I do like the proposal of the new classification system, as long as it's kept accessible to everyone using/playing SE.