OT: 10th planet found today!

[Phil M]

this is really very interesting. (at least for weirdos like me.)

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,240416,00.html

[Tiger]

10,500 years to complete an orbit? Jeez... like we are gonna see that planet for eons...

[warton]

By definition.

Peter

[MarkD]

this is really very interesting. (at least for weirdos like me.)

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,240416,00.html


It's interesting but does not meet the criteria for being a planet. (it's orbit is not in the same plane as the other planets, for example)

Mark

[632 Regal]

I thought I remembered hearing about this thing like 15 years ago...maybe that was Pluto.

[Phil M]

neither does pluto.. but there are some who dont think its a planet either.


It's interesting but does not meet the criteria for being a planet. (it's orbit is not in the same plane as the other planets, for example)

Mark

[Hector]

Although JPL does not want to admit it, Pluto and Sedna are actually stray moons that happen to get caught in a heliocentric orbit... The story continues...

[Phil M]

but pluto has enough gravitational force of its own to have a moon itself. but i do agree that a planet should be something of a definite size and shape. anything less should be considered a planetissimal (sp?). similarly how we discern a planet from a star, ie. a star is (or once was in a lot of cases) much bigger, gaseous, gives off a helluvalotta heat, etc.


Although JPL does not want to admit it, Pluto and Sedna are actually stray moons that happen to get caught in a heliocentric orbit... The story continues...