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QUOTE"Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. ""The decision on Pluto at a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries was a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects.That plan proved highly unpopular,...
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 )But really, how many planet do you think exsist, it could be thousands, or millions. Possibly billions. We can't really tell, because we don't know how big the universe is, or even any clue as to tell us how many there are. The article named the planet as "Planet Lila". Are there any pictures of the planet? I should have watched the news, I would have loved to see their article about it, I'm a much better listen er than I am a reader, I really don't have to read things that are very long. My posts for instance...
When I heard about this, I felt a bit surprised, a bit delighted. To realise that for thousands of years nobody knew about this planet, and two years ago suddenly people saw it. I wonder how it comes that it wasn't noticed before. But that's probably because I think of the universe and the satellites that float in it are like a car park with surveillance cameras. But it still is strange, that we already discovered hundreds of planets outside our solar system and we missed our own tenth planet. Maybe there are other planets in our solar system.
And even though I am delighted, I still find it odd that we explore space, whilst we haven't even discovered all about our own planet. Of course there are different inverstigating people, some interrested in Earth and some interrested in the universe, but it seems not right. Imagine somebody from Equador who comes to the US and starts asking loads of questions about the United Stated. After you answered them you ask things about Equador and he says 'I don't know. I just know where the airport is. And my own village.' Would you think that dude is sane? But that doesn't mean we should quickly forget everything we know of space. It just means that there should be some Earth-form of NASA, investigating the oceans and mountains and so on. My Greenpeace-level has duplicated several times, but why not? What do you think about that?
To answer Moody's question. I think the discovery of the 2003UB313 was because when it orbit, it came closer to the rest of the solar system. Refer to the Wikipedia NASA orbit diagram. It takes 2003UB313 560 earth years to orbit once around the sun.
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You know I've always wondered who gets to name the planet. Is it the first person to find out? Because planets like Saturn and Jupitar was based of Greek Gods? Correct me if I am wrong.
QUOTE (matrixlover @ Aug 1 2005, 07:57 AM) You know I've always wondered who gets to name the planet. Is it the first person to find out? Because planets like Saturn and Jupitar was based of Greek Gods? Correct me if I am wrong.  I'm not sure about who exactly gets to name them. But yeah, all of the planets, actually, were named after Greek gods...
Yes, the proposed name of "Lila" (or Lilah) was chosen by the scientist who discovered it. He named it after his newborn daughter. It is now up to the IAU to decide.
xboxrulz
I think I've already heard that there should be another planet in our solar system, and the scientist though it was strange that it's not presend
And now here it is !:D Finally discovered! Well done!:) Although when I see the orbit it looks veeery different compared to other planets' orbites... heh, quite unique tho...
Yes, it is a great discovery, findind a new planet on the outter boundries of the Solar System. Now it makes me wonder what does that mean for us?
And it also makes me wonder exactly how many more planets there are left to be discovered in our system alone.
lila? well thats gay... only joking.
props to the astromoners?? i think i used that phrase correctly. Latest EntriesQUOTE "Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. " "The decision on Pluto at a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries was a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects. That plan proved highly unpopular, splitting astronomers into factions and triggering days of sometimes combative debate that led to Pluto's undoing. In the end, only about 300 astronomers cast ballots Very scientific - to decide by votes  So, finally what does it come to ? No eccentrics allowed in sun's orbit? Just because it is the eccentric one, who is sometimes 8th and sometimes 9th around the sun; and it goes through the backyard and front of other planets' which has not been cleared . Now for some Indian background, in Indian astrology Neptune and Pluto have been named Varuna and Yama. (Yama is the god of death - comes through the backdoor) Varuna and Yama are digpals, guardians of two of the eight digs (directions) in Indian mythology. The nine planets (grahas) according to Indian mythology and astrology are: Surya, Chandra, Mangala, Budha, Guru (or Brihaspati), Shukra, Shani, Rahu and Ketu. Celestial objects that move around (unlike stars, which are stationary in relation to each other) and do not twinkle were called grahas. Each graha was assigned a god as its adhipati. (Rahu and Ketu, though asuras by birth, partook of the amrut through guile and became immortals like the devas. They are not adhipatis of any visible celestial objects but periodially consume and conceal the two largest grahas in retaliation for their sneaking to Vishnu of their deception.) Until the invention of the telescope by Galileo, only the planets upto Saturn were visible to the naked eye and only these were described as planets by various civilizations. Uranus, it is said, can be seen with the naked eye as a green speck, under favorable conditions. However, it generally twinkles a bit like stars. Anyways - now we've just eight planets - all the astrologists have some major re-learning to do and predictions to re-write ! JohnDa the FunDa http://www.fundazone.com http://www.medicozone.com
Well congratulations to those astronomers that discovered that planet. Yet theres like an infinite space out there covered with planets all over...so there should be more to come.
I often wonder how people discover new planets? Did this new planet just come into view recently because of its orbit? And regarding who names the planets, I think nowadays whoever discovers it names it. It seems to work that way for stars. You know, you can buy a star and have it named after someone. One of these days, I will do that for myself and my children...a little legacy, I guess.
Yeah this planet is really mysterious though, not much is known about it. This is good though because hopefully this discovery will spur scientists on and discover mmore planets and unravel secrets about the universe.
This is only one of the object being put forward recently as a 10th planet.
2003VB12 or Sedna is another one Sedna And here is another one called Quaoar. Quaoar No doubt as Mike Brown and his collegues continue to survey the Kuiper belt more such objects will be found. The search for planets around other stars which turned up these water bearing planets may be more interesting to some people. new planets |
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