ext_6388: Avon from Blake's 7 fails to show an emotion (0)
ext_6388 ([identity profile] fridgepunk.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2012-09-12 03:25 pm (UTC)

Strictly speaking, any term such as "areology" "selenology" also have the same problem as "planetary science", as they just mean "[astronomical body], the study of", which obviously incorporates everything about the body in question and not just the lithology of it.

However, "Planetary Science" as a term for this sort of study has the additional problem that it doesn't actually apply to the study of the lithology of fakey non-planets like Pluto or Ceres, nor moons like The Moon or Titan, as none of those are planets by any currently accepted scientific standard.

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