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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:55 pm
by MKJ
they already downgraded pluto to a lump-o-ice, and then counted charon as a planet, and then they didnt etc.
schoolbooks should say "on average, our solar system has 9 planets"
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:58 pm
by tnf
MKJ wrote:they already downgraded pluto to a lump-o-ice, and then counted charon as a planet, and then they didnt etc.
schoolbooks should say "on average, our solar system has 9 planets"
But it isn't an 'average' - the textbooks should say something like "there are 8 confirmed planets, and some debate surrounding the classification of Pluto and some other bodies within the solar system." Or something.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:07 pm
by saturn
hmmm....so this 10th planet is too small and too far away to explain the Kuiper Gap (debris and asteroids are concentrated in the Kuiper Belt and there's a sharp dropoff after that area, suggesting an Earth size planet that sweeps the area clean_
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:38 am
by Zerofactor
What about Menkor? or however you spell it. I remember screwing around in Celestia and I found this big red sun.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:46 am
by Keep It Real
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, UB313
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:26 am
by Don Carlos
Lo sir, where might you have been?