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It's another world ... but is it our 10th planet?
The Australian ^
| 3/15/04
| Louise Milligan
Posted on 03/14/2004 11:46:12 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Sedna? They missed a big opportunity. They coulda called it Hell.
Then every day would be a cold day in Hell.
(My apologies to the forum.)
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posted on
03/14/2004 1:49:36 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
To: Imal
Gah! You beat me to the Planet X picture!
62
posted on
03/14/2004 1:52:03 PM PST
by
Thoro
(Gridlocked government is better than active government.)
To: Willie Green
"I don't think they've named anything after Bacchus yet."
Wine-ot?
63
posted on
03/14/2004 1:54:45 PM PST
by
230FMJ
(...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
To: correctthought
I dunno, I think Uranus is worse. Besides, I think they ran out of Greco-Roman gods already, and its better than calling it moehammud or something.
They will never run out of Greco-Roman gods. They had a god for *everything,* including three or four separate deities just for the constituent parts of a shaft of wheat.
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posted on
03/14/2004 1:59:28 PM PST
by
Antoninus
(Federal Marriage Amendment NOW!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It takes Pluto 248 earth years to orbit the sun. None of us (using 120 years as an upper limit) ever live even a half Plutonian year. Whatever the orbital period Sedna has it will far exceed Pluto.
65
posted on
03/14/2004 2:09:41 PM PST
by
xp38
To: Mr. K
SO HOW DOES THIS AFFECT MY ASTROLOGY CHART WHEN SEDNA IS RISING? You bring up an interesting point. No horoscope cast prior to the discover of Sedna could possibly be correct because Sedna's influence wasn't taken into consideration. Will the misled be refunded their money?
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posted on
03/14/2004 2:10:08 PM PST
by
ngc6656
(Freepaholics Anonymous advisory: Don't freep and drive.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It appears that the Spitzer space telescope made this discovery. It seems that it's about the size of Pluto, it's only a matter of time before we find something in the Kuiper belt larger than Pluto.
NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object
The discovery of a mysterious object in our solar system is the topic of a listen-and-log-on news briefing on Monday, March 15, at 1 p.m. EST.
Dr. Michael Brown, associate professor of planetary astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. will present his discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun. He and colleagues made the discovery as part of a NASA-funded research project.
The virtual news briefing is only for reporters. Reporters in the United States can listen to the briefing and participate in the question-and-answer session by calling: 888/889-1963. Overseas media may call: 1/773/756-4808. Calls to these lines should start at 12:50 p.m. EST. The passcode is: "objects."
Graphics supporting this news briefing will be posted Monday on the Internet by 1 p.m. EST:
Spitzer Space Telescope
67
posted on
03/14/2004 2:21:43 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: Imal
68
posted on
03/14/2004 3:35:29 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Thank-you ..... thankyouverymuch)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
If the Hubbel can supposedly see to the edge of the Universe, than why cant it get a clear picture of this planet in our Solar System.
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posted on
03/14/2004 4:28:25 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Husker24
Hubble can see entire galaxies that far away - i.e. things with billions of stars with nuclear furnace cores throwing scads of light into space. This is a dirty snowball that reflects a little light from the sun. You can see a car's headlights farther away at night than a moth, right? Right next to a bright light you can see moths, but get a long way away from the nearest lamp, and they don't exactly stand out - not having their own light source.
70
posted on
03/14/2004 4:42:29 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
You can see a car's headlights farther away at night than a moth, right? Right next to a bright light you can see moths, but get a long way away from the nearest lamp, and they don't exactly stand out - not having their own light source. Good analogy.
When I read Husker24's question my impression was that he was asking why doesn't HST provide an image showing a planetary disk with features visible on it, so let's look at that. The angular size of Sedna as seen from Earth is 0.06 arc seconds. The resolving power of HST is 0.04 arc seconds. HST should reveal that Sedna is an extended source of light -- a tiny disk -- and not a pinpoint source like stars, but the image would be much too small for any surface features to emerge.
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posted on
03/14/2004 5:10:40 PM PST
by
ngc6656
(Freepaholics Anonymous advisory: Don't freep and drive.)
To: Destro
Crash it into Mars. That would increase the mass of mars allowing Mars to retain more atmosphere. It would also provide more water.
72
posted on
03/14/2004 5:12:17 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: realpatriot71
As I understand it, Chris Talk is no longer among our kosher fellowship. Conceivably some could track him down and ask him but I don't know how long that would take.
As to my own opinion . . . I don't know.
My moderately faint memories from tons of reading is that it's likely that we have known of such in eons past and records lost.
But, to my memory, the 'data' consists of very tiny bits of puzzle pieces of inadequate size to be concidered even a whole puzzle piece. One can make all kinds of outlandish assumptions based on them but to what end remains to be seen.
imho.
73
posted on
03/14/2004 5:19:11 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: realpatriot71
As I understand it, Chris Talk is no longer among our kosher fellowship. Conceivably some could track him down and ask him but I don't know how long that would take.
As to my own opinion . . . I don't know.
My moderately faint memories from tons of reading is that it's likely that we have known of such in eons past and records lost.
But, to my memory, the 'data' consists of very tiny bits of puzzle pieces of inadequate size to be concidered even a whole puzzle piece. One can make all kinds of outlandish assumptions based on them but to what end remains to be seen.
imho.
74
posted on
03/14/2004 5:19:22 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: realpatriot71
As I understand it, Chris Talk is no longer among our kosher fellowship. Conceivably some could track him down and ask him but I don't know how long that would take.
As to my own opinion . . . I don't know.
My moderately faint memories from tons of reading is that it's likely that we have known of such in eons past and records lost.
But, to my memory, the 'data' consists of very tiny bits of puzzle pieces of inadequate size to be concidered even a whole puzzle piece. One can make all kinds of outlandish assumptions based on them but to what end remains to be seen.
imho.
75
posted on
03/14/2004 5:19:49 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: realpatriot71
As I understand it, Chris Talk is no longer among our kosher fellowship. Conceivably some could track him down and ask him but I don't know how long that would take.
As to my own opinion . . . I don't know.
My moderately faint memories from tons of reading is that it's likely that we have known of such in eons past and records lost.
But, to my memory, the 'data' consists of very tiny bits of puzzle pieces of inadequate size to be concidered even a whole puzzle piece. One can make all kinds of outlandish assumptions based on them but to what end remains to be seen.
imho.
76
posted on
03/14/2004 5:20:12 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: realpatriot71
As I understand it, Chris Talk is no longer among our kosher fellowship. Conceivably some could track him down and ask him but I don't know how long that would take.
As to my own opinion . . . I don't know.
My moderately faint memories from tons of reading is that it's likely that we have known of such in eons past and records lost.
But, to my memory, the 'data' consists of very tiny bits of puzzle pieces of inadequate size to be concidered even a whole puzzle piece. One can make all kinds of outlandish assumptions based on them but to what end remains to be seen.
imho.
77
posted on
03/14/2004 5:20:30 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Quix
OOPS. STILL GETTING MOSTLY ERROR MESSAGES WHEN TRYING TO POST here in NW New Mexico.
78
posted on
03/14/2004 5:22:20 PM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Savage Beast
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Could this be the "nemisis" that the Art Bell crowd has been talking about for the lasr few years?
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posted on
03/14/2004 6:29:52 PM PST
by
fella
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