Our solar system is about to get larger? (12 planets now)

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Fascinating.
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Post by seremtan »

all they've really decided is when to use a word, and use it consistently. our solar system isn't going to change size

i call topic misrepresentation
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indeed seremtan.
our solar system has been growing and shrinking for over 2 decades now.

i still say Pluto is not a planet, for several astronomical reasons i will not go in to now :D
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Pluto is a dog
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and a god :eek:
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Bad idea, IMO. :icon13:
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Post by Turbine »

I only see 11 planets on that picture.
Where is the 12th planet?
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2003 UB313? What, they ran out of good names?
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Turbine wrote:I only see 11 planets on that picture.
Where is the 12th planet?
pluto and charon, tool
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I'm telling you this naming thing is an issue. In the future there'll be major accidents that go like this:

"You fool! I said lay in a course for 2015 B234, not 2050 B234! That's a gas giant, we'll be cosmic dust in 10 seconds flat!"
"Oh shit captain!"

Not good.
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you want to pay attention to your msn, guyblowki
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MKJ wrote:you want to pay attention to your msn, guyblowki
I´m on a different PC today... i´ll install it on this one :E
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old...
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Ryoki wrote:2003 UB313? What, they ran out of good names?
they should call it planet kebab

for no particular reason
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Post by Canis »

HAHAHA!!!

We have all these mythological names for our planets, that have meaning in literature and history....and then we go an name the last one "2003 UB313"
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MKJ wrote:indeed seremtan.
our solar system has been growing and shrinking for over 2 decades now.

i still say Pluto is not a planet, for several astronomical reasons i will not go in to now :D
Uh, it's a captured Kuiper Belt object, what's so complicated about that?
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"It's a planet if it's not orbiting a planet."
Umm...
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Post by Nightshade »

Sure, just pointing out the goofiness of the second bit.
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Post by Tsakali_ »

seremtan wrote:
Ryoki wrote:2003 UB313? What, they ran out of good names?
they should call it planet kebab

for no particular reason
they should call it Urectum!
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Post by bitWISE »

2003 UB313 isn't the public name ffs...all objects found in space are given similar official names and later given a friendly name like Pluto or Andromeda.
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Post by plained »

its goen be name'ed after the me

planet plained :drool:
it is about time!
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Nightshade wrote:
MKJ wrote:indeed seremtan.
our solar system has been growing and shrinking for over 2 decades now.

i still say Pluto is not a planet, for several astronomical reasons i will not go in to now :D
Uh, it's a captured Kuiper Belt object, what's so complicated about that?
ding, one of the reasons

nothing complicated about it, i just didnt feel like putting all them reasons into words at that point in time

the other reason is - ofcourse - its orbit thats skewed in comparison with the other planets, and the fact that its a solid body opposed to the gaseous bodies at the outer edges of the solar system (which in turn has to do with the sun;s gravitational pull).
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Post by losCHUNK »

doesnt it have to be a certain size aswell ?

i heard an arguement a while back about the addition of a new planet but because it was smaller than pluto they bunked the idea (because by all accounts pluto is supposed to be too small to be a planet ?) ?
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MKJ wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
MKJ wrote:indeed seremtan.
our solar system has been growing and shrinking for over 2 decades now.

i still say Pluto is not a planet, for several astronomical reasons i will not go in to now :D
Uh, it's a captured Kuiper Belt object, what's so complicated about that?
ding, one of the reasons

nothing complicated about it, i just didnt feel like putting all them reasons into words at that point in time

the other reason is - ofcourse - its orbit thats skewed in comparison with the other planets, and the fact that its a solid body opposed to the gaseous bodies at the outer edges of the solar system (which in turn has to do with the sun;s gravitational pull).


Ehhh, not quite accurate on your last bit there. Yes, Pluto's different than the rest of the Jovian planets, but they evolved the way they did due to the mechanism of the formation of the entire solar system, not just the sun's gravity. All the heavier elements that are charateristic in the terrestrial planets were held in closer in the nebula from which our solar system evolved, leading to the gaseous composition of the Jovian planets we see today.
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thats what i meant; i kinda dumbed it down so to speak
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