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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.
Pluto might have it's status as a Planet removed btw.
Yeah they had a meeting about it yesterday craig
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.
Oh great. More planets to remember for science. LOL. Kidding. Well, that's cool.
2003 UB313?
Sounds like l337 haxx0r language.
Nice find.
I'm safe, already done my Physics GCSE =]Quote:
Originally Posted by Herman
Interesting..
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
The tennis ball in my hand is a sphere and technically it's revolving around the sun. Is my tennis ball a planet?Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
No, because it's using the earth's atmosphere to do it, so technically its not revolving itselfQuote:
Originally Posted by MrPresident
I could go get a basketball and spin it on my finger, but that just wouldn't be the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
does that mean we'll have to revise the new solar system for tests?
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Yes, if they decide which are planetsQuote:
Originally Posted by Cassie.
oh yay :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
aere these new planet?
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Originally Posted by MrPresident
...no, wouldnt be the same as a planet.
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.
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 "/
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.
Yeah I heard that, quite interesting.
And theres more to that Red, those 3 dont narrow it down :p
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
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 otherQuote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
That's a bit rubbish. If I had a moon I certainly wouldn't let it be as big as me.
Which one is Planet X ?
what he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
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
WHICH ONE IS PLANET X? :@
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
Yeah, it will doQuote:
Originally Posted by Herman
they send robot things into space lyk.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedStratocas
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
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