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Out Beyond Pluto, Astronomers Find Something New
Reuters ^
| October 07, 2002
| Deborah Zabarenko
Posted on 10/07/2002 1:47:30 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Out Beyond Pluto, Astronomers Find Something NewJimmy Hoffa.
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posted on
10/07/2002 1:59:26 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: RightWhale
fyi
To: My2Cents
You can almost hear the tinfoilers popping the champagne on this one( go to davidicke.com you'll really laugh your a** off).
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10/07/2002 2:02:54 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: Willie Green
![](http://www.funlaugh.com/..gifs/pluto.gif)
Pluto es Hijo de Pluta. <|:)~
To: My2Cents
Rocket Man
To: Willie Green
Sky and Telescope magazine (www.skypub.com) had an interesting article a while ago where they tried to come up with a logical basis for defining a planet that would encompass all the current 9 planets while excluding others. They were unable to do so: criteria such as "massive enough to pull it's own mass into a spherical shape" or "within x distance from the Sun", or a specific chemical/geological composition all either excluded Pluto (and others), or else included other objects not currently considered a planet.
If you want to read more about this object, check here
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posted on
10/07/2002 2:06:10 PM PDT
by
RonF
To: Willie Green
I tell you Zacchariah Sitchen will be proven right!
(He makes a helluva lot more sense than the Koran does.)
To: weikel
go to davidicke.com you'll really laugh your a** off).
Sheesh - he's got the Tinfoil franchise all locked up.
To: Willie Green
"Out Beyond Pluto ..." -- I thought this was a thread about Al Gore.
To: Willie Green
Its a mag-lev project and its headed in the direction of western Pennsylvania!
To: weikel
WoW what a site. My mind is numb now.
Anybody got any jumper cables I have to kick start my brain after reading this stuff. ROTFLMAO
To: Willie Green
Is this the same one announced last summer? It is big but probably only the first big object to be found in the Kuiper Belt. There could be a lot of these. One problem with finding them is that they are dim objects in spite of their size. Light levels are low out there to begin with, and the objects aren't much more reflective than lumps of coal. These objects will be the stepping stones to the next star, but not soon. In the course of time we will be living out there, mining and building settlements, while the inner solar system is gradually filled with habitats and settlements. There is a lot of hard work ahead, if we ever get started.
To: Willie Green
bump ..... we need to get out there and strip mine all these volatiles and stuff.
To: Savage Beast
I tell you Zacchariah Sitchen will be proven right!
(He makes a helluva lot more sense than the Koran does.)Hell's bells! Amiri Baraka's "poetry" makes more sense than the MoonDemon Handbook.
To: RonF
I thought the definition of a planet was pretty simple. Orbits the sun, is big and round. Did I miss something?
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posted on
10/07/2002 2:26:39 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: Savage Beast
Everything makes more sense than the Koran( at least Cthulu cultist don't claim to be a peaceful religion lol).
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posted on
10/07/2002 2:27:28 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: weikel
Aren't there some people who believe there is some kind of planet (Or something weird...I can't remember what) beyond Pluto??
Or, am I just making this up??
To: Johnny Shear
No you are not the tinfoilers( god knows they may be right)have been predicting a body like this to arrive in our solar system close to the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 they generally refer to it as Niburu after what the Sumerians called a 10th solar body.
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10/07/2002 2:43:08 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: Willie Green
It is quite difficult to argue that Pluto isn't a planet when Pluto has it's own moon Charon,
If it is large enough for it's gravity to capture a moon then it is a planet.
It isn't the Planet X people were imagining past Neptune, but it is a planet.
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