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Solar system '10th planet' is bigger than Pluto
http://news.telegraph.co.uk

Posted on 02/02/2006 1:43:14 PM PST by Grendel9

Claims that the Solar System has a 10th planet are bolstered by the announcement today that an icy body at its fringes is bigger than Pluto. *** "Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto," said Prof Bertoldi, "it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronomy; crevolist; pluto; xplanets
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Sorry if this was posted before. I find it fascinating.
1 posted on 02/02/2006 1:43:15 PM PST by Grendel9
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By the same standards, would not Teddy Kennedy qualify for planet status?


2 posted on 02/02/2006 1:45:30 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (I've upped my standards! Up yours!)
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To: Grendel9

And all this time, we couldn't see it until now? It must be waaaaaay out there.


3 posted on 02/02/2006 1:45:40 PM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: Grendel9

But is it bigger than Uranus?


4 posted on 02/02/2006 1:45:54 PM PST by dfwgator
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UB313?

I hope they can come up with something better than that.
5 posted on 02/02/2006 1:46:43 PM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
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To: dfwgator

Are there any rings around it?........


6 posted on 02/02/2006 1:46:45 PM PST by Red Badger (...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
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"Solar system '10th planet' is bigger than Pluto ...'

Pluto's cartoon, cartoons anger Islam, Islam in Portuguese is Plutoreta....you know you might just be onto something here....

kind regards,

(a philistine)
7 posted on 02/02/2006 1:47:02 PM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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UB313? I hope they can come up with something better than that.

UB40, the reggae planet.

8 posted on 02/02/2006 1:47:22 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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UB313? I hope they can come up with something better than that.

What about UB40?

9 posted on 02/02/2006 1:47:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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"would not Teddy Kennedy qualify for planet status?"
He might, but first you need to get him into an orbit around something [besides a bottle].
10 posted on 02/02/2006 1:47:54 PM PST by GSlob
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It must be waaaaaay out there.

There, too, Senator Kennedy would seem to qualify.

11 posted on 02/02/2006 1:48:18 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (I've upped my standards! Up yours!)
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To: Grendel9

WTF?


12 posted on 02/02/2006 1:48:50 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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he has the volume, but doesn't have enough mass to create gravity. He's a gas cloud. Notice when more gas is produced, it repells all things around him?...He


13 posted on 02/02/2006 1:49:46 PM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: southernnorthcarolina

he has the volume, but doesn't have enough mass to create gravity. He's a gas cloud. Notice when more gas is produced, it repells all things around him?...He


14 posted on 02/02/2006 1:49:51 PM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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I hope they can come up with something better than that.

How about "Hillary's Heart"?

15 posted on 02/02/2006 1:50:29 PM PST by American Quilter
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To: southernnorthcarolina

I don't know about the swimmer, but I'm sure ol' Kerry's punkin would qualify. Rumor has it that Lurch's head has it's own area code.


16 posted on 02/02/2006 1:50:56 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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To: Grendel9

yeah it was along with the same bad jokes :)


17 posted on 02/02/2006 1:51:56 PM PST by steveo (No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man, I spell my name steveo...)
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More on UB313 here

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa007&articleID=0005634C-336B-13E1-B36B83414B7F0000

18 posted on 02/02/2006 1:52:03 PM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: American Quilter
How about "Hillary's Heart"?

If she had one.

19 posted on 02/02/2006 1:52:27 PM PST by Godzilla (Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.)
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To: American Quilter

It's a planet, not a black hole.


20 posted on 02/02/2006 1:53:03 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (We Acadiens have nothing to do with Québec)
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