New clues in search for Planet Nine

Science News ^ | 5 Jul, 2016 | CHRISTOPHER CROCKETT

[Paladin2]

Thanx for the linkz....

[7MMmag]

>>>> Charon is a minor orbiting body.... <<<<

Yeah, but it's like a bonus dwarf planet too. About as half as big as Pluto...

Pluto's moon Charon is over half the size of Pluto itself, leading astronomers to originally classify the Pluto-Charon system as a "double planet." They were also considered "binary planets" because the smaller Charon doesn't actually orbit around Pluto, rather Pluto and Charon orbit a common gravitational center (the "barycenter') located above Pluto's surface.

[Paladin2]

So call it a planet helper. Pluto has a heck-of-a-job keeping its orbit clean....

[Paladin2]

""barycenter')"

Here on Erf we call it "tides".

[yarddog]

I remember when the photos of Pluto were posted.

At first they were really disappointing then the next day, Wow! Great pictures.

I also remember they didn’t look anything like the scientists had predicted.

[PLMerite]

No, that’s PLAN 9...

[PLMerite]

Forget Planet 9, what about Planet 10 ?

[Overwatcher]

My favorite movie of all time. I still get scary goose bumps seeing those two, Thor and Vampira. I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

What ever happened to Bela Lugosi’s dentist who filled in for him after Bela died during the filming of this cinematic masterpiece?

[MtnClimber]

Some of the Pluto photos were simply amazing. Just getting the spacecraft to intercept the Pluto orbit is pretty amazing too.

[Kickass Conservative]

Festus and Morticia, the Early Years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MtnClimber.

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