New planet discovered.

[EineBeBoP]

Nasa is going to announce the detection in our solar system of a 10th 'planet' orbiting our sun. The discovery has been made using the Hubble Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Sedna, as it has been named, is being described as "a mysterious object" and is being hailed as a "discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the Sun".

The object measures approximately 1,250 miles across but may yet prove to be even larger than Pluto, at 1,406 miles across. Its distance from Earth is 6.2 billion miles, residing in the distant Kuiper Belt.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13014862,00.html

[Corrosion]

bah now I gotta find a new way to remember planets

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies


Now gotta add the S somehow.

[EineBeBoP]

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies Sukkah!

or

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies. Sweet!

:p

[scarpas]

indeed

[Corrosion]

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies, Supportcommunismnothisisnotsubliminalmessaging

[321]

Maybe it's just like that planet they thought they found before and then they figured out it was just a moon. Anyway doesn't really matter :groovy:.

[Derfud]

Cool, Neat to find out new things about our solar system.

[Jaged]

This was posted before me thinks.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20698&highlight=sedna

[Baneblade]

We should nuke Pluto so it isnt hangin offa Neptune's pubes...

[Strygun]

Yup, you're about 2 weeks behind...

[Onizuka-GTO]

We should nuke Pluto so it isnt hangin offa Neptune's pubes...

You have problems you know? :rolleyes:

[Firefly]

Yup, you're about 2 weeks behind...
Isn't that word censored? What was it... I think it was Old blankety-blank something...

[Squeeky]

That's actually a Domino's Dot.

[Queensidecastle]

It is very debatable whether this is a planet or not. As a matter of fact, Pluto is probably not even a planet and Sedna is quite smaller than Pluto. These planetoids are debris left over from the solar system formation. The fact that sedna is 2x the distance from the sun than pluto makes it clear that this object is a member of the Kuiper belt. When Pluto was discovered no one knew about the Oort cloud or the Kuiper belt and if they had, would not have classified Pluto as a planet. Of course the finding of a new planet would be sensational and draw in lots of money for NASA and the associated sciences. This is a good thing and the reason it may be classified as a planet even when there is no logical basis for scientifically doing so.

Planetoid is the right classification for Sedna. Studies of the Kuiper belt over the last decade have shown the emergence of this new class of objects.

[Onizuka]

Bah, it doesn't deserve to be a planet.

[Rbstr]

cool

[Electrofreak]

10 is a much more even number anyways. So what are they going to name it? How about "Planet Electro!"

:D

[OfaLoaf]

Did you read anything more than the first paragraph? It's going to be called Sedna.

[AztecWarrior]

Old. Fucking. NEWS!

Besides, taking Sedna Amp Station won't make any sense anymore.

"Galaxy en route to Sedna."

"You fuckstick, Sedna's IN our galaxy!" &c.

[1024]

Fuck, they found my house. my hizzowze.

[Onizuka-GTO]

Old. Fucking. NEWS!

Besides, taking Sedna Amp Station won't make any sense anymore.

"Galaxy en route to Sedna."

"You fuckstick, Sedna's IN our galaxy!" &c.


Actually it should be "Sedna in our Solar System"


:)

[AztecWarrior]

Actually it should be "Sedna in our Solar System"


:)
Wrong.

By DEFINITION, a planet in the Solar System is in our galaxy. I say that my neighbor lives next to me, you said "No, he lives in your city."

[martyr]

i'd say he lives in your state, but both state and city could be incorrect, because they have finite borders that could cut between your property and his. then one of you would pay higher taxes.

your point stands, though, that while a square is always a rectangle, a rectangle is not always a square. if this body orbits Sol, then it's a part of our solar system, and clearly within the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

[Onizuka-GTO]

Martyr = All Your Bases Belong to Us

[Hezzy]

I read some conspiricy theories on the new planet ages ago. Apparently, this new planet will pass by us, disrupting stuff, doing funky stuff to the planet in general. I'll try and dig it up. The site also went on to talk about the governments working with aliens and so on. Oh, don't forget the coming of the anti-christ. Something about jerusalem and a temple being built will be one of the signs. Apparently, the anti-christ is an alien.

[Retroactive]

they actually discovered this about a year or two ago, i read about it in a Time Magazine. suprised they are just barley putting it on the news :\

[JetRaiden]

That's actually a Domino's Dot.

some ad campaign. :p