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Astronomers claim discovery of 10th planet in solar system
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| July 30,2005
| AFP
Posted on 07/30/2005 12:09:55 AM PDT by Srirangan
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Yay! :) I guess..
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:09:59 AM PDT
by
Srirangan
To: Srirangan
It's cold, distant and frigid.
Planet Hillary Clinton?
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:11:13 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: A CA Guy
lol! .. so do we deport the democrats or the islamofacists to the 10th one?
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:12:24 AM PDT
by
Srirangan
To: Srirangan
"I'd say it's probably one and a half times the size of Pluto," he said from CalTech, based in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, referring to what until now has been the most distant planet in earth's solar system." I had read it was smaller in an earlier article. Cool. Ten planets - a nice even number.
To: Srirangan
So is Sedna not a planet now? Last year they said it was.
To: Srirangan
I bet this darn frigid planetoid has been closer in our system than usual and is effecting our weather.
This will piss off the environmentalists to no end.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:16:15 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: A CA Guy
I hope they use the myths of anybody but Greeks or Romans. Big Kahuna would sound nice.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:18:00 AM PDT
by
carumba
To: carumba
Planet Hillary Clinton it is.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:21:45 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Srirangan
So is it going to be planet Mike or Brown ?
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:23:44 AM PDT
by
Deetes
(God Bless the Troops and their Family's)
To: Srirangan
They should just demote Pluto and end the debate. Or grandfather Pluto with an asterisk that it's not really a planet, and end the debate.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:24:07 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: monkapotamus
I had read it was smaller in an earlier article. A lot of people are becoming confused by this. There were three massive objects officially reported as discovered in the Kuiper belt in the last day or so. Two are slightly smaller than Pluto at last estimate, and one is unambiguously larger.
Because these were so close together (which is not a coincidence -- internal politics at play), people are confused about what has actually been discovered and many are confusing identical sounding reports with being identical reports..
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:28:15 AM PDT
by
tortoise
(All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
To: Srirangan
I don't know why they're calling this new thing "the 10th planet." There isn't even agreement on whether Pluto qualifies as a planet or a large Kuiper Belt Object (KBO).
Until scientists settle the argument on planet/KBO Pluto, there's no sense in calling this other ball of rock "the 10th planet." Indeed, it's more logical to call it "the 2nd largest identified KBO."
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:31:59 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: AntiGuv
I agree.
Pluto not really a planet.
This is what Hubble can see.
Its size and orbit are the main reasons it should be demoted from planet to "something else."
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:32:47 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: A CA Guy
Planet Hillary Clinton? Funny...but I'd rather not give that piece of filth any sort of shot at quasi-immortality.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:35:29 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: SkyPilot
Its size and orbit are the main reasons it should be demoted from planet to "something else." I think "dormant comet" is the most appropriate.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:38:31 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: Prime Choice
What else could you call a distant ice planet?
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:41:50 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: SkyPilot
If some alien civilization were charting our solar system there is no chance I think that Pluto would get classified as a planet equal to the other eight. Or, if it were, then it'd be a subcategory of some kind. The chart would have four rocky inner planets, four gaseous outer planets, and four iceballs in the fringe.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:42:38 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: A CA Guy
What else could you call a distant ice planet? Personally, I think it's another dormant comet. Call it "Feynman 2005" and let's call it a day.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:45:13 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: AntiGuv
The chart would have four rocky inner planets, four gaseous outer planets, and four iceballs in the fringe. And that fun ring of asteroids between the rocky inner planets and the outer, unignited stars.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:48:32 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: SkyPilot
Pluto has been around for so long we should keep it as is. Its part of the family; and, we have already denegrated it by naming it after this guy:
So why get into a big row when all we really have to do is to quitely edit its position to match the biggest object in the KBO.
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posted on
07/30/2005 12:55:04 AM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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