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Another planet?
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There have been theories for years that there is another planet further out than Pluto, based on the orbits of things already charted. If it is another planet that kind of stuff up the plaque they put on Voyager...
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Pity they didn't call it Mondas...
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Heh heh nerd
Heh heh nerd
What has that to do with Mormons knocking on your door?.
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Well I'm glad somebody understood the referenceOriginally posted by Mog
Heh heh nerd
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It's 3 times further from the sun than what Pluto is. But how such a planet could have been formed is a bit of a mystery, considering there's a vacuum twice the size of the previously known solar system between it and the next nearest planet.
Or is there another asteroid belt between Pluto and Sedna?
Or is there another asteroid belt between Pluto and Sedna?
Some astronomer said last night that if we consider Pluto and Senda planets then there could well be hundreds of planets in the solar system, most of them in the Kuiper Belt.
Thats it isnt it, there is no clear definition of a planet.
Just a question, but is there any evidaince to suggert it isnt just a large stray comet that got sucked into the suns orbit?
BTW, i dont think Pluto is a planet either.
Just a question, but is there any evidaince to suggert it isnt just a large stray comet that got sucked into the suns orbit?
BTW, i dont think Pluto is a planet either.
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Nor does Mickey.
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The article doesn't note whether or not Sedna orbits in the same plane as the other planets; pluto orbits 17 degs of the mean plane, while all the other planets orbit in the mean plane. Kuiper belt objects dont necessarily orbit in the mean plane - which is why some dont think Pluto is true planet; rather, a planetoid.
Sound like a desparate reach to get some research dollars by branding a big Kuiper-belt object the 10th planet....
Sound like a desparate reach to get some research dollars by branding a big Kuiper-belt object the 10th planet....
science geek! science geek!!
<laughs and points>
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Don't laugh; your mum loves spinning on my orrery.
only cause you have nothing else to offer her.
I mean, she cant even give you a biscuit afterward, cause you dont perform well enough
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I like that idea- a alien race finds Voyager and homes in on its point of origin, travels for light years to the edge of our solar system...
'Well, here we are, the benevolent and enlightened People of Ee have travelled for millenia to bring a new age of peace and prosperity to the dwellers of this solar system... oh.. hang on, ten planets?! Oops, must have got the wrong address. Bugger it, we'll try again next millenia.'
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If she could afford 2 biscuits, mebbe she'd give me one, but she says you eat her buscuit after you drill her and fail-to-fill her.
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isnt it good to see that people do their best to prop up your ego?
"cant afford it" <s******, chortle>
She is lying to you - she can afford three biscuits on the allowance i give her.
"cant afford it" <s******, chortle>
She is lying to you - she can afford three biscuits on the allowance i give her.
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3 biscuits? i don't think so. I demand quality baked goods, not the man-jam sao's you scarf down like a bulemic bukake star.
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Do you *want* to be invaded by Cybermen or something?
Do you *want* to be invaded by Cybermen or something?
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If anyone is interested, here is another article...
A working group of the International Astronomy Union (IAU) will consider whether objects such as Sedna should be classed as planets.
The IAU says the group will consider the definition of a minimum size for a planet.
But in the meantime Sedna will not be considered one.
The outcome could lead to a demotion for Pluto, which some astronomers argue is too small to be called a planet.
"If we were starting anew, undoubtedly Pluto wouldn't be labelled a planet," Professor Iwan Williams, of the IAU, told BBC News Online.
"But we have almost a 100 years of culture that says Pluto's a planet. So the IAU will set up a working group to try to ponder the imponderable."
Icy worlds
Sedna, named unofficially after the Inuit goddess of the sea, is the latest in a string of icy objects approaching the size of Pluto discovered in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
Sedna is believed to be about three-quarters of the size of Pluto, based on measurements of light reflected from its surface detected by telescopes on Earth.
Distant and faint, Sedna is causing a stir
Many astronomers, including Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, who led the team that discovered Sedna, admit it is not a true planet, preferring to describe it as a planetoid - somewhere between a planet and an asteroid.
But like other objects found in recent months that inhabit the band of cosmic debris beyond the Inner Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, it is much bigger than a typical asteroid.
Some believe it is only a matter of time before another such body is found which dwarfs Pluto.
Reclassifying Pluto is one way to solve the dilemma. When it was discovered in 1930 it was thought to be much bigger - and thus more planet-like - than it really is.
However, the astronomical community will not take kindly to the idea of downgrading Pluto's status. The last time it was suggested, in 1999, it caused an uproar.
Hmm... gotta wonder why people would be in uproar about that.
A working group of the International Astronomy Union (IAU) will consider whether objects such as Sedna should be classed as planets.
The IAU says the group will consider the definition of a minimum size for a planet.
But in the meantime Sedna will not be considered one.
The outcome could lead to a demotion for Pluto, which some astronomers argue is too small to be called a planet.
"If we were starting anew, undoubtedly Pluto wouldn't be labelled a planet," Professor Iwan Williams, of the IAU, told BBC News Online.
"But we have almost a 100 years of culture that says Pluto's a planet. So the IAU will set up a working group to try to ponder the imponderable."
Icy worlds
Sedna, named unofficially after the Inuit goddess of the sea, is the latest in a string of icy objects approaching the size of Pluto discovered in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
Sedna is believed to be about three-quarters of the size of Pluto, based on measurements of light reflected from its surface detected by telescopes on Earth.
Distant and faint, Sedna is causing a stir
Many astronomers, including Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, who led the team that discovered Sedna, admit it is not a true planet, preferring to describe it as a planetoid - somewhere between a planet and an asteroid.
But like other objects found in recent months that inhabit the band of cosmic debris beyond the Inner Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, it is much bigger than a typical asteroid.
Some believe it is only a matter of time before another such body is found which dwarfs Pluto.
Reclassifying Pluto is one way to solve the dilemma. When it was discovered in 1930 it was thought to be much bigger - and thus more planet-like - than it really is.
However, the astronomical community will not take kindly to the idea of downgrading Pluto's status. The last time it was suggested, in 1999, it caused an uproar.
Hmm... gotta wonder why people would be in uproar about that.
Impressive!!
i would bow to you, but i am afraid you would take that as an invitation and try your monkeybuttstuffing tactics on me
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Yeah, thats what she said.
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