10th rock from the sun

[Vincenzo]

http://techplanetnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/10th-rock-from-sun.html

Astronomers announced with excitement Friday they had discovered what they call the solar system's 10th planet

 

[furtivefelon]

meh, things can get blurry at that distance, so i still assume it's 8 planets, possibly 9/10..

 

[PP Mguire]

PLuto makes 9, so its a fact there are 9 planets. What ever happend to plutos moon? Isnt that a [planet to or are they keeping a moon?

 

[Nubius]

among other astronomers who will argue that because it is so far off, it is not entitled to be called a planet at all

how the hell does distance determine something being called a planet or not. If it revolves the sun, no matter how freakin far away, it should be considered a planet.

Isnt that a [planet to or are they keeping a moon?

If it's revolving pluto, then it's a moon....if it were to be revolving the sun it'd be a planet

 

[Lonewolf5460]

What about asteroids and junk?
I think this thing is a planet if it is round becaus it had enough gravity to do that when it was formed,asteroids are large but are mis shapen blobs.
Also that said on the news it is bigger that pluto so it should be considered a planet so I think this is our 10th

 

[dumdum8684]

interestingly enough hackers spead up the announcement of the 10th planet...

http://techdirt.com/articles/20050801/0237225_F.shtml

...the planet was detected back in January (from pictures taken in 2003...

 

[Jorsoft]

I thought they were thinking that Pluto really wasn't a planet after all.

 

[Lonewolf5460]

Yah because of its obit some think it is an escaped moon of neptune.

 

[GameGURU]

Last I heard, Pluto was denounced as a planet.

Right now...it's a big MAYBE.

But I LOVE astronomy.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/14/planet.discovery/

 

[Harper]

Great..... another planet is the far reaches of space.


What the likelywood of putting a man on Mars in this life time.
I alway chuckle at movies like 2001, 2010, Space 1999 and some of the stuff from the original Star Trek Time Line.