Robert Hurt (IPAC)
Artist’s concept of a view of the planet, looking back toward the distant sun.
http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/336/articles/Volume%205/09-22-05/planet.html
CalTech
What? Not Xenu?
Since they have started naming "new" planets after television characters, I guess the next planet can be named MacGyver. How about Cartman? Kramer?
Robert Hurt (IPAC)
Artist’s concept of a view of the planet, looking back toward the distant sun.
http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/336/articles/Volume%205/09-22-05/planet.html
CalTech
coast-2-coast ping!
They named a planet after these two? What's next? Mulder and Scully?
The Earth's moon formed in a similar way when Earth crashed into an object the size of Mars.
Do we know this as fact?
What object was it?
Did Xena and Gabrielle ever,well you know what.
Should we search hard enough we'll probably find several of these objects. I think Pluto's demotion has become inevitable. I sure don't consider it a planet anymore.
That's neither funny nor cute and whoever's doing it needs to have a little sit-down chat with an adult.
You mean the mother ship has launced a probe? Maybe Louis Fairy-Khan's days are numbered after all.
While the debate is meaningless, the continuing discovery of planets or whatever they are called out beyond Pluto/Neptune, way beyond, probably means there are planets all the way to the next star. It is possible a starship might go directly to the next star, but it is more likely that the Kuiper objects and Oort objects present a natural evolution--stepping stones--in the same direction.
Why is there no difinition of 'plantet'?
I would think that anything massive enough to shape itself into a shpere would be a good definition.
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