Astronomers: We have found a 10th planet

**alnorth** · 07-29-2005, 10:14 PM

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LOS ANGELES — Astronomers announced Friday that they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun, likely renewing debate over what exactly is a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164171,00.html

Imagine, in a few years we'll be telling kids that when we went to school, we thought we only had 9 planets, and theyll look at us like we were all cavemen or something.

yeti · 07-29-2005, 10:16 PM

For some reason, it seems like I hear this about once or twice a year.

**morphius** · 07-29-2005, 10:37 PM

Read this earler today. I don't know why they can't just say that if you hold a spherical shape and rotate around the sun, then you are a planet. If you are in a spherical shape and rotate around a larger planet, then you are a moon. If two sphere's of similar size rotate around each other, they are a binary planer system. Anything smaller is a satellite/astriod/comet... Not tooo dame difficult.

Plus we are still trying to figure out how planets form, sure we have some pretty good theories, but I'm still trying to figure out how a mars sized object was created and put into motion to collide with the Earth to form the moon in most of the current theories.

Slayer Diablo · 07-29-2005, 11:39 PM

Have they really determined whether it's Charon orbitting Pluto or Pluto orbitting Charon? I'm still thinking that Pluto is the moon of Charon considering who's larger than who.

Anyway, yeah, I've heard of this 10th planet before...a few years ago, they were still trying to determine whether it was part of our solar system and, IIRC, it was going by the cliche name of "Planet X".

Amnorix · 07-29-2005, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth

Imagine, in a few years we'll be telling kids that when we went to school, we thought we only had 9 planets, and theyll look at us like we were all cavemen or something.

This is going to happen whenever I get around to telling my oldest (currently 4 years old) that when I was a kid we had to get up to change the channel on the TV because remote controls didn't exist...

**Rausch** · 07-29-2005, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Chico Diablo

Have they really determined whether it's Charon orbitting Pluto or Pluto orbitting Charon? I'm still thinking that Pluto is the moon of Charon considering who's larger than who.

Anyway, yeah, I've heard of this 10th planet before...a few years ago, they were still trying to determine whether it was part of our solar system and, IIRC, it was going by the cliche name of "Planet X".

Planet X was mostly the tinfoil-hat people who figured space lizards lived there. But the idea of ten planets isn't a new one.

Slayer Diablo · 07-29-2005, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth

Imagine, in a few years we'll be telling kids that when we went to school, we thought we only had 9 planets, and theyll look at us like we were all cavemen or something.

Yeah, back then all y'all were being taught that Earth only had one moon...now kids are being told that we technically have two of them. It's only a technicality because the second one goes in a horseshoe shape rather than a complete orbit, though.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...on_991029.html

StcChief · 07-30-2005, 12:15 AM

DILIGAF

Ultra Peanut · 07-30-2005, 01:36 AM

OMG PLANT X

Braincase · 07-30-2005, 05:30 AM

The report I saw has in smaller than Pluto, and I've yet to come across anything regarding whether it's on the plane of the elliptic. Smaller than Pluto = non-planet.

ChiefFripp · 07-30-2005, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by morphius

Read this earler today. I don't know why they can't just say that if you hold a spherical shape and rotate around the sun, then you are a planet. If you are in a spherical shape and rotate around a larger planet, then you are a moon. If two sphere's of similar size rotate around each other, they are a binary planer system. Anything smaller is a satellite/astriod/comet... Not tooo dame difficult.

Plus we are still trying to figure out how planets form, sure we have some pretty good theories, but I'm still trying to figure out how a mars sized object was created and put into motion to collide with the Earth to form the moon in most of the current theories.

Well all the planets in our solar system are rotating around the sun, this one just has a tighter orbit, if it exist. Now a sphere rotating around a planet that itself rotates arounda sun is called a moon.

4th and Long · 07-30-2005, 06:15 AM

The one thing I keep seeing on the news about this so-called new planet is that it could be nothing more than a huge lump of ice and rock, in which case, it's not a planet.

Thig Lyfe · 07-30-2005, 07:42 AM

We should call it ChiefsPlanet. That would rock.

**Rain Man** · 07-30-2005, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Chico Diablo

Yeah, back then all y'all were being taught that Earth only had one moon...now kids are being told that we technically have two of them. It's only a technicality because the second one goes in a horseshoe shape rather than a complete orbit, though.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...on_991029.html

Wow, that's pretty cool. It's like a ball in a pinball machine that gets caught going between two bumpers.

**Rain Man** · 07-30-2005, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadWolf

We should call it ChiefsPlanet. That would rock.

That would be sweet. Could we name various craters after members, with the size based on their post count?

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morphius World's finest morphius Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $6895027	Read this earler today. I don't know why they can't just say that if you hold a spherical shape and rotate around the sun, then you are a planet. If you are in a spherical shape and rotate around a larger planet, then you are a moon. If two sphere's of similar size rotate around each other, they are a binary planer system. Anything smaller is a satellite/astriod/comet... Not tooo dame difficult. Plus we are still trying to figure out how planets form, sure we have some pretty good theories, but I'm still trying to figure out how a mars sized object was created and put into motion to collide with the Earth to form the moon in most of the current theories.
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