Bridge Commander News: 10th Planet Discovered!


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	10th Planet Discovered! - *Astronomy* Posted by: Starforce 2 on 07-30-2005 @ 18:45

	This News Item has been viewed 5,022 times Oberservers have Discovered an object outside of plutors orbit that is atleast the size of Pluto. Size of a planet can be determined by it's brightness, and even if it reflects 100% of it's light, that makes it slightly larger than Pluto at the lowest estimate. The full story can be found at NASA: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050729224136.htm Also, another large object found outside of Neptunes orbit, but unlikely to get planet status due to it being around 930m (Senda is between 800 and 1100m and Pluto is 1400m). Keep in mind, there has been talk about taking Pluto off the planet list due to it's small size, however I doubt that will happen either since it's been that way for so long. This new object also has a moon. More can be found at Space.com: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_large_object.html 08-01-2005 @ 08:52 - Get tons of the hottest Demos on one DVD! 07-29-2005 @ 21:27 - FileFront Network Insider #7 Average User Rating: 10 Number of Votes: 4 E-Mail to Friend • Save to del.icio.us • Stumble It! • Share on Facebook • Fark It!

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Total comments: 16 | Last comment: 08-04-2005 at 08:32

master_merlin
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(Roosevelt, UT)
Joined: July 20th, 2005
Posts: 2

Cool!

I wonder what they will call it. This is a good set of news Rock

Danar
Joined: December 28th, 2002
Posts: 77

The IAU (International Astronomical Union) has to be the one to officially designate any discovered body as a planet or not. Even NASA referred to it as a tenth planet, or so I heard, but they don't have the authority to decide that. It remains to be seen whether or not the IAU will designate this as a planet. No one knows, but I personally feel that they will not choose to call this a planet, despite its size. It's really just a very large Kuiper Belt Object in a wildly inclined orbit. It's like a bigger Pluto, but Pluto should only be considered a planet for historical and sentimental reasons. These stories were rushed out the door because a hacker found the info and was about to release it himself. I would bet that if they had been able to take their time in releasing this they wouldn't have called it a planet but waited instead on an official decision by the IAU.

starforce2
From: (Minnesota)
Joined: May 4th, 2003
Posts: 775

where'd u get that bit of information?

Leebo24
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Joined: January 3rd, 2005
Posts: 118

This 'planet' was discovered years ago...old news.

SlimyStrike
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(Eindhoven)
Joined: October 25th, 2004
Posts: 179

Old news?...

pokemona
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(Barrie, Ontario)
Joined: November 25th, 2002
Posts: 809

#4 Thats was Senda yur talking about.

elminster
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Joined: September 19th, 2002
Posts: 364

Actually no, it has only just been clasiffied as a 'planet' officially.
Its current designation is 2003UB313.

Sedna is a planetoid about a million miles closer.

BMAN100
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(Ontario)
Joined: March 6th, 2005
Posts: 68

man they found that . well what ever it is ages ago. no offence , but its just a huge asteroid as far as I know

RogMan74569
From:

(Winston-Salem, NC)
Joined: December 25th, 2004
Posts: 87

It's been theorized there was a tenth planet with an even weirder orbit than Pluto...

I always had a hunch there was too. I'm glad bonified scientists proved my hunch true big grin

RogMan

Danar
Joined: December 28th, 2002
Posts: 77

I got the hacker information from an AP story about the planet. If you do a quick search on google it'll turn up the story. #8 Planet X is just a theory, and a very poor one at that. No one has found anything in our solar system matching the description (a planet at least 3-4 times earth's mass in a highly elliptical orbit). This 10th "planet", not to be confused with X, is just a little ice ball about 1.5 times pluto's size and with a surface of frozen methane.

NeoExelor
From:

(New York, New York)
Joined: April 28th, 2004
Posts: 310

When was Sedna classified a "Planetoid"?
Im still pretty sure its a planet. If it isnt, the new one isnt. They said Sedna was a part of a rock belt outside the system. If Sedna isnt, then why in hell would "2003UB313" be?

the9thDoctor
From:

(Kendal)
Joined: January 16th, 2004
Posts: 144

There's been several 10th Planets discovered over the years if I recall correctly (probably don't, knowing me).

Wonder if they'll call it Mondas

akula2ssn
Joined: February 11th, 2005
Posts: 835

Unfortunately, there is no real consensus on the definition of a planet. Some view this object as Kuiper Belt object instead of a planet. Infact many astronomers view Pluto as a Kuiper Belt object and not a planet. However, some view that since this new object is much larger than Pluto, that the term planet should be extended to it. As of yet the IAU has no agreement as to what constitutes a planet. The debate has been going on from 6 months to 5 years. It's pretty much because astronomers never defined the word "planet".

MilleauRekiir
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(London)
Joined: September 16th, 2003
Posts: 213

The debates been going on for longer than five years - it began getting serious as long ago as when Pluto was found and also erupted when calculations of the total mass of the asteroid belt where made and a decision had to be taken on whether or not to classify it as a dead planet. It isn't thought to have been so.

Holst must be furious. Yet another one to put to music, he already lags behind by one...

morgan0210
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Joined: February 26th, 2003
Posts: 423

It was pretty cool to hear about Quaoar and Sedna, but this is definately nice.

Danar, Pluto is considered a planet, but this thing is discovered and you're trying not to call it a planet?

akula2ssn
Joined: February 11th, 2005
Posts: 835

Problem with defining what constitutes a planet is that we have a lot of them covering a wide range of sizes and compositions. While there are quite a few astronomers that challenge the classification of Pluto as a planet, most more or less consider Pluto a planet simply, because it is generally accepted by people to be b planet.

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