[gopwinsin04]

A nice view of Planet X (2003UB313 for short)

[MikefromOhio]

well let's see here...

WE have Uranus...

We have Pluto...

We have Mercury and Venus and Saturn and Jupiter..

why don't we name this one something COLD....Pluto just doesn't sound cold to me....

[gopwinsin04]

updated link http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/newplanet-072905.html

[NormsRevenge]

WOO HOOO !!!!

They found Gray Davi$'s home planet!

maybe? ;-)

[CaptRon]

Let's call it Demoratia, because it's so far from the Sun it's mostly in the dark.

[DoughtyOne]

Let's call it the "Misdirection" planet.

[curtisgardner]

does the space program still have any credibility?

[Fitzcarraldo]

United for Out Expanded Space Programs

[Flux Capacitor]

"That's no planet...."

[TypeZoNegative]

Going with the Roman god theme, we can name it Angerona, a goddess of coldness.

[JOE6PAK]

Start a new trend. Name it for the best singer ever on planet Earth.

The Planet SINATRA!

Or Hoboken.

[Brett66]

Ok,see if I got this straight, there have been announcements of the discovery of 3 different trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt objects today. One was said to be larger than Pluto, but that was later corrected, but UB313 is the real deal, it is significantly larger than Pluto and thus a true 10th planet.

[Brett66]

This was just posted at space.com:

The announcement, made today by Mike Brown of Caltech, came just hours after another newfound object, one slightly smaller than Pluto, was revealed in a very confusing day for astronomers and the media.

The new object, temporarily named 2003 UB313, is about three times as far from the Sun as is Pluto.

"It's definitely bigger than Pluto," said Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy. The object is round and could be up to twice as large as Pluto, Brown told reporters in a hastily called NASA-run teleconference Friday evening.

His best estimate is that it is 2,100 miles wide, about 1-1/2 times the diameter of Pluto.

One of many?

The object is inclined by a whopping 45 degrees to the main plane of the solar system, where most of the other planets orbit. That's why it eluded discovery: nobody was looking there until now, Brown said.

BREAKING NEWS: Object Bigger than Pluto Discovered, Called 10th Planet

[Simmy2.5]

Oh man! And I wonder what Richard C. Hoagland's going to say about this! Well, okay, I could've found out if I tuned into Coast to Coast tonight. But I was watching something a little more entertaining him at the time...Battlestar Galactica.

All well, hope he updates his blog soon!

[Thinkin' Gal]

NASA Funded Scientists Discover Tenth Planet

How so? Did it smack into the space shuttle?

[tutstar]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

Astronomers Find a New Planet in Solar System
The New York Times | 7/29/05 | KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 07/29/2005 3:35:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453462/posts