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Kardan
16-08-2006, 04:37 PM
So, this MAY be our new Solar System, some special people get to vote on the 24th of August or something:

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, 2003 UB313

There all "planets"

Ceres, I would guess used to be a comet since it's in between Mars and Jupiter.

Charon last time I checked orbited Pluto

And 2003 UB313 god knows, let's just say it's another planet found beyond Pluto.

EDIT: Found out 2003 UB313 is nicknamed Xena.
Craig
16-08-2006, 04:48 PM
Pluto might have it's status as a Planet removed btw.
JT-Fan
16-08-2006, 04:49 PM
Yeah they had a meeting about it yesterday craig
FlyingJesus
16-08-2006, 04:52 PM
This is so stupid, one of them is a moon of Pluto and the others are just big asteroids/meteors (whatever you want to call them). They aren't planets - planets are spherical forms, not just big rocks. The only one that could in my opinion be a planet is Xena, as last time I checked they couldn't tell what it was. "Ceres" is just a large member of the Asteroid Belt and Charon is a satellite of another planet already.
Herman
16-08-2006, 04:54 PM
Oh great. More planets to remember for science. LOL. Kidding. Well, that's cool.
Victimized
16-08-2006, 04:54 PM
2003 UB313?

Sounds like l337 haxx0r language.
You
16-08-2006, 04:59 PM
Nice find.
PaintYourTarget
16-08-2006, 05:57 PM
Oh great. More planets to remember for science. LOL. Kidding. Well, that's cool.
I'm safe, already done my Physics GCSE =]
IDK
16-08-2006, 06:05 PM
Interesting..
RedStratocas
16-08-2006, 06:09 PM
Theyre debating whether pluto is a planet. I dont see the problem though. Is it a sphere? Yes. Does it revolve around the sun? Yes. PLANET.
Kardan
16-08-2006, 06:12 PM
Theyre debating whether pluto is a planet. I dont see the problem though. Is it a sphere? Yes. Does it revolve around the sun? Yes. PLANET.

If that's the rule, Charon shouldn't be a planet. Well it isn't and it shouldn't.
PaintYourTarget
16-08-2006, 06:39 PM
Theyre debating whether pluto is a planet. I dont see the problem though. Is it a sphere? Yes. Does it revolve around the sun? Yes. PLANET.
The tennis ball in my hand is a sphere and technically it's revolving around the sun. Is my tennis ball a planet?
RedStratocas
16-08-2006, 06:41 PM
The tennis ball in my hand is a sphere and technically it's revolving around the sun. Is my tennis ball a planet?

No, because it's using the earth's atmosphere to do it, so technically its not revolving itself
PaintYourTarget
16-08-2006, 06:46 PM
No, because it's using the earth's atmosphere to do it, so technically its not revolving itself
I could go get a basketball and spin it on my finger, but that just wouldn't be the same.
ilovejordan
16-08-2006, 08:15 PM
does that mean we'll have to revise the new solar system for tests?
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Kardan
16-08-2006, 08:19 PM
does that mean we'll have to revise the new solar system for tests?
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Yes, if they decide which are planets
ilovejordan
16-08-2006, 08:19 PM
Yes, if they decide which are planets

oh yay :rolleyes:
awesomedudebro
16-08-2006, 08:20 PM
aere these new planet?
RedStratocas
16-08-2006, 08:25 PM
I could go get a basketball and spin it on my finger, but that just wouldn't be the same.

...no, wouldnt be the same as a planet.
Dracolis
16-08-2006, 08:26 PM
It was reported on the 7th October 2002 that someone found a planet and they named it Quaoar. I just wondered if this was the Charon planet before they named it Charon or if this was a different planet altogether that they had found.
Mentor
16-08-2006, 08:58 PM
The problem with pluto being a planet is if we use that as the standard, we would have to accept around 30 other objects as planets as well "/
FlyingJesus
16-08-2006, 09:53 PM
I think although Pluto isn't exactly massive (as planets go - but it's still bigger than me) it should remain a named planet as it has its own moons. I know not all planets have moons, but the ones that don't are big enough anyway.
Many
16-08-2006, 09:54 PM
Yeah I heard that, quite interesting.
And theres more to that Red, those 3 dont narrow it down :p
ColyTom
17-08-2006, 12:55 AM
What happened to Setna/Sedna ? I remember seeing it on the news a while ago. I t was suppose to be a newly discovered planet or something
Mentor
17-08-2006, 01:34 AM
I think although Pluto isn't exactly massive (as planets go - but it's still bigger than me) it should remain a named planet as it has its own moons. I know not all planets have moons, but the ones that don't are big enough anyway.
Plutos moon is almost the same size as it though, and pluto is orbiting its moon just as much as its moon is orbiting plution, there in a binary oribit aka there both spinning around each other
FlyingJesus
17-08-2006, 05:29 PM
That's a bit rubbish. If I had a moon I certainly wouldn't let it be as big as me.
JonJon
17-08-2006, 05:51 PM
Which one is Planet X ?
louder
18-08-2006, 11:46 PM
Theyre debating whether pluto is a planet. I dont see the problem though. Is it a sphere? Yes. Does it revolve around the sun? Yes. PLANET.

what he said.
nvrspk4
19-08-2006, 12:18 AM
They are supposedly changing the qualifications to be a planet which is the basis of everything. That makes me laugh a little. Yeah these scientists are geniuses and all but they assume that its within their power to declare what is a planet and what is not while we've only sent a manned mission to our moon? Mhm ok, all powerful, yeah. And then they expect the world to abide by it and the crazy part is most will. That men control such an outerwordly thing is kinda strange to me but I'm strange too so yeah.

Anyway, Charon and Pluto are going to be Co-Planets (our all powerful scientists again) as they revolve around each other. And Ceres is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Saturn I think it was. I didn't hear about 2003 USB2734612635 though. (To those that thought it was strange language, it was probably discovered in '03, USB probably stands for something and its the 2734612635th one (I made the second number up obviously). I saw a newspaper article with the proposed new requirements to be a planet (once again, these things a kajillion times the size of these men are being supposedly classified and controlled by men) but I can't remember the exact stuff. Maybe I'll go find it now xD
JonJon
19-08-2006, 12:26 AM
WHICH ONE IS PLANET X? :@
RedStratocas
19-08-2006, 01:36 AM
How the hell do we even see these planets?:P Theyre hundreds of millions of miles away, how do you tell if one dot is a planet or a star?
Herman
19-08-2006, 04:15 AM
How the hell do we even see these planets?:P Theyre hundreds of millions of miles away, how do you tell if one dot is a planet or a star?
Hmm, yeah it makes me wonder as well. Space will always be a mystery.
ColyTom
19-08-2006, 01:29 PM
Hmm, yeah it makes me wonder as well. Space will always be a mystery.


Yeah, it will do
louder
19-08-2006, 01:37 PM
How the hell do we even see these planets?:P Theyre hundreds of millions of miles away, how do you tell if one dot is a planet or a star?

they send robot things into space lyk.
Ezzie.
19-08-2006, 04:07 PM
They use high power telescopes and whatnot. But it is highly illogical for a handfull of "self proclaimed geniuses" to rule the universe? Only one "life" I know who controls the universe in my books.

Wow my first post in about 3 months lol :p
Ezzie.
19-08-2006, 04:08 PM
They use high power telescopes and whatnot. But it is highly illogical for a handfull of "self proclaimed geniuses" to rule the universe? Only one "life" I know who controls the universe in my books.

Wow my first post in about 3 months lol :p

mustve clicked too fast soz :D

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