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.
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
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).
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: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
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.