NASA iPad App Ignores Important Solar System Objects and Missions

No Pluto without Eris; No Ceres (let alone Vesta) without Haumea and Makemake (and who knows how many others). And suddenly, what stared as a simple diagram would become quite cluttered...

Editor's note: I must have missed something - there are missions to visit Haumea, Makemake, and Eris underway?

Interestingly, ISS ended up about where Ceres and Vesta should be. I wonder how it made it all the way out there?! We must have solved the propulsion problem.

"Not to do so is to ignore a billion dollar's worth of hardware and science."

No less... That's some hyperbolic trajectory right there...

What about the space telescopes? Which solar object should be shown in honor of Hubble? or Chandra?

And should we take it that an astronomical body is less important just because there isn't a mission heading there? That's a very subjective criteria...

Much ado about nuthin'.

I must have missed something. The Sun is the largest body pictured on the landing page. But we don't have a mission to the Sun yet. Well, one was just announced, but it's nowhere near underway.

Also, they seem to have missed Phobos, Deimos and all the other satellites we've visited.

Pretty clear that they eliminated Pluto because, in someones universe, Pluto isn't a planet. But we have missions to things that are not planets. We've even helped missions land on a few. I don't see Eros pictured here. Oh, because it's too small? Well, again there's that Sun that doesn't look anywhere near large enough, and Eros is quite a bit bigger than ISS, which is pictured.

The problem with free software (free anything) is that, all too often, it's worth just about what you paid for it. This Solar System "app" does seem like it could be useful as a reference tool, so perhaps it's worth more than $0. I bet those of you who are complaining can get a full refund.

Steve