Wikijunior talk:Solar System/Glossary

Several of the glossary words here are links to wikipedia articles: Atmosphere, Centaur, Erosion, Lagrange point, Near Earth Asteroid, Silicate, Tectonic Plate, and Trojan Asteroid.

In addition, some of the definitions may be too complex for the targetted audience of children: Equator, Planet.

Some of the terms themselves may also be too complex: Lagrange point.

Finally, some of the definitions are difficult or misleading: Crater, Mass, Radar, Surface Area, Star, Volume. Volume and Mass share the same definition, for example.

I'd like to help by manually editing, but I haven't familiarized myself with the policies governing editing and probably won't until this weekend. If nothing more, this can serve as my note to go back later and do so.

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I feel that this needs to be substantially cleaned up. Be bold, and don't worry about governing policies, at least for this page. This was a pet project and was updated randomly at that.

IMHO, there should be no links to Wikipedia articles, as is the case now. This is intended to be an appendix for the Wikijunior Solar System book, and if printed there would be a need to grab information about the hyperlinked terms and write them out. Eventually I want to kill the links entirely and replace the entries with a simplified definition that would be understandable for a kid that is roughly 8-14 years old (what I try to keep in mind for a target audience when I write entries for this series). Rob Horning 6 July 2005 12:55 (UTC) I NEED TO KNOW HOW IS THE UNIVERS ?