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Title: Astronomers Claim discovery of 10th planet
Post by: achtung on July 30, 2005, 12:31:03 am: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050730/ap_on_sc/new_planet

What do you think classifies a planet as a planet?
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Post by: Rictor on July 30, 2005, 01:10:39 am: Rupert!
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Post by: karajorma on July 30, 2005, 01:17:56 am: I think that unknown hacker needs to be found and get his head kicked in. Must be really pissing off these scientists to have to release this news early.

Personally I don't think Pluto's a planet. It's orbit is wrong for that. It's a Kuiper Belt object same as Sedna and Quaoar. If Pluto was discovered today they wouldn't be calling it the 9th planet.
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Post by: Janos on July 30, 2005, 03:35:21 am: Again..?
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Post by: karajorma on July 30, 2005, 03:47:01 am: Not really. Many sources claimed that Sedna was the 10th but pretty much all astronomers agreed that it wasn't.

The problem this time is that Pluto is classified as a planet but this thing is bigger than Pluto. Since Sedna was smaller they could get away with saying it wasn't a planet. They'll have a much harder time justifying that stance with this one.
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Post by: Mefustae on July 30, 2005, 06:06:20 am: I just hope that when they name it, they'll stick to the conventions set by the other planets. As in a name of a God, like Jupiter, possibly something Greek or Roman...Planet Romulus anyone? :p
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Post by: Kie99 on July 30, 2005, 06:13:07 am: (http://www.thepaincomics.com/Sorrows%20of%20Pluto.jpg)
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Post by: karajorma on July 30, 2005, 06:25:07 am: Almost makes you feel sorry for the poor planetoid :D
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Post by: Ford Prefect on July 30, 2005, 08:41:49 am: Let's blow it up.
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Post by: BlackDove on July 30, 2005, 08:59:49 am: Sounds like a plan.

I'll bring the torch, you bring the pitchforks.
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Post by: Mefustae on July 30, 2005, 09:34:46 am: "Let's burn down the Observatory so this never happens again!"
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Post by: TopAce on July 30, 2005, 10:39:44 am: The World won't collapse if people get knowledge of the 10th Planet.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on July 30, 2005, 10:42:03 am: I wish people would make up their minds about what "planet" meant. :p
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Post by: Kie99 on July 30, 2005, 10:44:45 am: Can we call it Mondos? Cookie for the reference.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on July 30, 2005, 10:54:05 am: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
The World won't collapse if people get knowledge of the 10th Planet.

Yes it will. The cultural shock of knowing there is another spherical rock in the nether regions of our solar system will be too much for civilization to bear. This knowledge must be contained at all costs.

Bring out the deneuralizers!
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Post by: Mongoose on July 30, 2005, 10:21:04 pm: Anyone else waiting for that Russian "astrologist" to sue over this? :p
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Post by: Carl on July 31, 2005, 01:12:13 am: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
I wish people would make up their minds about what "planet" meant. :p

anything the size of pluto or bigger :p
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Post by: karajorma on July 31, 2005, 03:19:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by Mongoose
Anyone else waiting for that Russian "astrologist" to sue over this? :p

Actually they'll probably say that the fact that they didn't know about this planet is what stopped them from getting correct horrorscopes all this time and make a fortune selling all new ones to anyone moronic enough to believe that. :)
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Post by: Deepblue on July 31, 2005, 03:30:13 am: We shall call it... "Bob."
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Post by: Nuke on July 31, 2005, 06:24:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Let's blow it up.

can we blow up earth instead? it blocks my view of uranus.
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Post by: Bobboau on July 31, 2005, 07:37:52 pm: definition of a planet, by Bobboau:
a planet is a stelar body of suficent mass that it's material forms into the shape of a sphere under it's own gravity that orbits one or more stars
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Post by: Carl on July 31, 2005, 08:41:42 pm: in that case, there are countless asteroids that you'd consider planets.
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Post by: Goober5000 on August 01, 2005, 03:45:01 pm: Asteroids aren't spheres though.

Technically, the Earth isn't a sphere either. It bulges around the equator.
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Post by: Carl on August 01, 2005, 07:17:50 pm: some asteroids are spheres.
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Post by: Bobboau on August 01, 2005, 07:42:16 pm: display sevral, and it specificly says due to there own gravity.
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Post by: Carl on August 01, 2005, 08:29:56 pm: Ceres. and Pallas to some extent.