Posted on 05/23/2025 9:22:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
From the article: “It’s a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that could potentially be classified as a dwarf planet,”
Pluto IS Planet 9! Phooey!
Interesting. But of the news category that, rather than astounding, it’s more of hmmm.
“Just” = eight years ago.
Alrighty then…
(Yeah, I know they spend years analyzing data to predict and confirm such things, but I hate it when articles do this click bait crap with headlines.)
It’s in a rather large elliptical orbit as per the diagram.
The Sun is just one focus. Where is the other?..........
How is that any different than Pluto????
Put Pluto back on the list!!!!
This one actually makes it TEN then.
An ellipse has two focal points............
Maybe if we could “gently” crash a few of these large icy asteroids into Mars, increase its gravitational field, create a nice ocean and atmosphere, we’d be well on our way to some useful terraforming!
Yes. And when an ellipse represents an orbit, one is empty.
All planets have elliptical orbits. There’s nothing at the second focal point.
“2017 OF201”
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Color me suspicious.
If this were a numbered lithograph, it sure would have ‘sketchy’ written all over it.
It’s orbit takes it an order of magnitude further from the sun than the Voyager probes? That’s out there!
Yes, we won’t see it again for while...............
I’m looking forward to how “AI” will be used to go through all the archival data and identify additional items like this in a very short time.
It’s a PupuPlanetary object.
I don’t want to make light of it, but they can’t be ceres about this.
Except that there are many Pluto-like objects orbiting out beyond Neptune. A couple of these are posted in the picture accompanying this post (Haumea and Makemake, for instance). If you count Pluto as a planet, there would be no reason not to count these, as well as some asteroid belt objects like Ceres as well. The new body discovered would not be 10; it would be a much higher number.
These bodies, including Pluto, are fundamentally different from the right recognized planets in terms of their sizes and their ability to clear their orbits of other sizeable bodies. Pluto is more like these bodies than it is like the eight major planets, so it was reclassified to a new designation of dwarf planet, along with these other objects.
It needs a new core. Mars has no magnetic field.
Also, at the Temple of the Sun pyramid in Mexico, there are smaller temples said to represent planets arrayed along the avenue leading to the pyramid. The problem is that there are ten of them
Thay are Aztec
Yes, I have read about that association! I see we have something in common. I highly respect the ancient traditions and do not throw them out with the bath water. You know that the Pyramid Complex is a space port with loading tarmacs right? Large ships cannot hold their own weight on solid ground so loading ramps were needed to reach them. And it was built long long before the Aztecs...
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