Tenth planet discovered...

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:55 pm

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"

Post by **tnf** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:58 pm

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.

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:07 pm

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_

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:38 am

What about Menkor? or however you spell it. I remember screwing around in Celestia and I found this big red sun.

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:46 am

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, UB313

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:26 am

Lo sir, where might you have been?