Possible 10th planet

[Epgs]

Found this very interesting.

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

[Robert]

Interesting.

If I recall correctly, Pluto is no longer a planet, given the distance and size.

So this "10th planet" wouldn't be considered a planet either, given it's distance and size.

[Blank Verse]

If they aren't planets, what are they technically considered then?

[Robert]

Originally posted by Blank Verse
If they aren't planets, what are they technically considered then?

I believe they said a star.

[Wojtek]

Originally posted by Robert
I believe they said a star.
a star is a light source, the sun is a star, stars make their own light.
neither pluto nor sedna or any other 'planet' make their own light, so consider them either planets or big piles or rock/ice floating somewhere far far far away.

[Robert]

Originally posted by Wojtek
a star is a light source, the sun is a star, stars make their own light.
neither pluto nor sedna or any other 'planet' make their own light, so consider them either planets or big piles or rock/ice floating somewhere far far far away.


Yes that is true. But I do rememebr them stripping it of it's status as a planet.. or they were thinking of doing that.

According to Wired News, ".....but many scientists argue that the object [Pluto] is in fact a brown dwarf or a failed star."

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41328,00.html

[Epgs]

That really screws up my middle school science projects.

[Webdude]

We have found millions of stars and planets across the galaxy, but havent even found all the planets in our own solar system?? :confused5

Now onto the other question, if there is ice (water), there may be life. If it is indeed a brown dwarf, or failed sun, then that's going to change a lot about our planet's history. If it was once a sun, then we had two suns circling each other with smaller blobs of planets stuck in the middle. A lot of our scientific facts and theories may soon shoot right out the window.. Since a lot of facts were based off there only being one sun ever in this solar system, over hundreds of years other facts have then been built off those earliest facts. Hundreds of years of Scientific facts right out the window. I'll bet no-one expected that either..

Whoever thought there could have ever been a second sun in our solar system? Maybe it still holds it's own star gravity, and it one of the things that help keep our planet from plunging into the sun, or getting any closer anyway..

[Fuzzylogic]

i heard they were discussing calling pluto a 'minor planet' or even a 'planetiod' or something like that. theres alot of those outside our planetary system and there are nothing more than smaller objects then our moon.

[awayfromforum]

planetoid is what pluto should be called, as well as this 10th "planet"

[Conscript]

I hope it has oil on it...

[Epgs]

Yeah except to transport it, it would take soooooooo long.

[Dean]

I heard its year is 10,000 days

[cbp]

Damn, I just heard about it. This is interesting stuff.

Just wondering what next, life in/on Europa. :D

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Robert
I believe they said a star. I remember they were called Kupiter Belt objects.

[tandoc]

Originally posted by cbp
Damn, I just heard about it. This is interesting stuff.

Just wondering what next, life in/on Europa. :D

too much odessey for u... good series tho :classic2:

[tandoc]

Originally posted by Phyxisus
I heard its year is 10,000 days

try 10,000 earth years