Revolve in peace.
This dwarf was discovered in Hawaii. The question will it be named for a Disney character, or for the first President from Hawaii. Perhaps the winning combination will be Goofy Obama.
Is it red?? :)
“The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun,” discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. “They let us piece together the history of our solar system.”
Bunch of hogwash. Their whole planetary nebula model of solar system evolution has been up-ended by all the observations of exoplanets, and finding more dwarf planets beyond the gas giants in our own solar system certainly does nothing to help them salvage their model. Until they acknowledge the situation and come up with a new model, they’re just putting band-aids on a gaping wound.
Far out, man.
" "There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said."
Wondered if that space case Sunken Civ had seen it yet.
Space case ping.
Pluto isn’t quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
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At times Pluto will be further away from this new planet than Earth.
I thought the preferred term these days was "Little Person" planet.
Well, THIS changes everything.
Some astronomers think a much larger object--possibly a gas giant planet or even a very faint brown dwarf--might be orbiting the Sun, but very far away from the Sun in a possibly highly-elliptical orbit. With the launching of the James Webb Space Telescope with its massive infrared sensor in a few years, we might be finally be able to find that object for the first time.
Actually there is a Vertically Challenged Planet which is larger than Pluto—Eris, discovered in 2003 (period of 560 years, diameter of 1850 miles compared to Pluto’s 1485).
Would it be okay with you if this became the current Undead Thread?
Obama will probably want the planet named after him. Could be quite the dilemma since Uranus has already been taken.
There are now three types of videos regarding this phenomenon on youtube:
1. Complete deniers.
2. Those who say there is something out there but it’s beyond Pluto.
3. Those who say the something has passed Jupiter, and that fact enables us to see the “wings” (clouds of iron oxide dust that the largest planet of the incoming “intruder” solar system trails behind it), as well as the “string of pearls” (the 8 planets that circle the dwarf star).
I believe number 3, because the photos show something larger than Jupiter looks when we see Jupiter in our own nighttime sky, and also show the wings and the planets.
It’s actually a floating space mine.
How about killing two birds with one stone and name it after one of the seven dwarfs AND Obama- Dopey!
Poor little feller planet
A midget
Alone out there with the Oort Cloud raining every day
Prolly some cold nights too