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10 Planets? Why Not 11?
NY Times ^
| August 23, 2005
| KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 08/23/2005 4:39:11 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:39:11 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Interesting the sizes of those bodies are nearly the same.
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:41:40 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: Xenalyte
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:43:36 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: RightWhale
Should bigger then Pluto be the standard for Planetary status?
To: Names Ash Housewares
Planets should have moons. Either that or planets should appear on astrological charts. Something arbitrary we can argue over forever.
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:46:56 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: Names Ash Housewares
"Should bigger then Pluto be the standard for Planetary status? "
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:48:00 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
To: Names Ash Housewares
I would change the solar system models at this point. Especially with Xena and Sedna, it looks like it's time to update the Almanacs.
Odd question to other Space Buffs:
What is the current location of Voyager 1 (the one which left the Solar System), and is it possible for it to get photos/info on the proposed planetary bodies mentioned in the article.
Unlikely, I'd bet. But on the off chance it's close enough for a photo....
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:51:50 PM PDT
by
TitansAFC
("It would be a hard government that should tax its people 1/10th part of their income."-Ben Franklin)
To: TitansAFC
A map could probably be made showing the deep space probes and the new planetlike bodies. Probably in most cases we are just as close from here on earth as any of them are.
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:54:09 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: Names Ash Housewares
No one's bigger than Goofy...
unless they stuff.
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:54:42 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: neverdem
Am I wrong, or haven't we "discovered" a 10th plan every other year for the past 20 years?
It just seems like I remember the odd story popping up every so often about the discovery of a 10th planet.
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posted on
08/23/2005 4:56:48 PM PDT
by
cincinnati65
(Just up the road a piece.......)
To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:07:18 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Another catastrophic failure of Bode's Laws. (Gets demoted to theory?)
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:13:36 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Names Ash Housewares; TitansAFC; RightWhale
Planets should be in orbits with low eccentricity near the ecliptic plane or be Pluto. Pluto fails the test, but will be retained for reasons of tradition. Pluto will be the only planet which is also (read: realy just) a Kuiper belt object.
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:14:30 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
To: TitansAFC
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:16:41 PM PDT
by
HP8753
(My cat is an NTSB Standard,The Naval Observatory calls me for time corrections.)
To: RightWhale
Planets should have moons. What of Venus and Mercury, then? Are you arguing they should not be planets?
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:18:13 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: cincinnati65
Your right. I was thinking the same thing. What happened to all the other 10th and 11th planets?
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:19:47 PM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
To: neverdem
Between feedings and diaper changes of his newborn daughter, Michael E. Brown may yet find an 11th planet. I understand that Uranus was found while changing a diaper...
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:20:38 PM PDT
by
Luddite Patent Counsel
(Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
To: RightWhale
Interesting the sizes of those bodies are nearly the same. Some folks question that they are actually planets; that they are more likely to be large, comet-like Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). That's part of the reason why a lot of people wanted to reclassify Pluton/Charon as a KBO.
I don't discount Dr. Brown's very thorough work. It's just going to take a bit more to sell me (and a lot of others).
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:21:06 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
I understand that Uranus was found while changing a diaper... Watch out for the Klingons there.
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posted on
08/23/2005 5:21:33 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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