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...014862,00.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!

[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 .

[Derfud]

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

[Jaged]

This was posted before me thinks.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/f...ighlight=sedna

[Baneblade]

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

[Strygun]

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

[Onizuka-GTO]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

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

You have problems you know?

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Strygun

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.