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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Mar 18th at 1:53pm 2004

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Nasa is going to announce the detection in our solar system of a 10th 'planet' orbiting our sun. The discovery has been made using the Hubble Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Sedna, as it has been named, is being described as "a mysterious object" and is being hailed as a "discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the Sun".

The object measures approximately 1,250 miles across but may yet prove to be even larger than Pluto, at 1,406 miles across. Its distance from Earth is 6.2 billion miles, residing in the distant Kuiper Belt.


Interesting stuff. I think calling it a planet is debatable though, because technically pluto isn't big enough to be a planet. [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Mar 18th at 1:57pm 2004

Yeh I heard that there thinking of taking pluto off the list so there will be only 8 planets dont know if they will do it.

But they think that pluto is just what was leftover from when the planets were formed.

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Mar 18th at 2:31pm 2004

It might have a moon too, they're trying to get a look at it with hubble.

It's 3 times futher from the sun than pluto, so that should give you some idea of how far away it is.

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"The Sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin," said Dr Brown


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Posted by Jinx on Thu Mar 18th at 3:20pm 2004

isn't this like the 5th time they've found a "10th planet"?



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Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Mar 18th at 5:10pm 2004

Don't screw with "Planet-X" you bastards! You're screwing with 80s games timelines! Ohs nos! [addsig]



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Posted by Diarmaidx2 on Thu Mar 18th at 5:38pm 2004

yea, i read about this, its ment to be always -230C. bit nippy



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Posted by Jinx on Thu Mar 18th at 9:00pm 2004

you mean NIPPLE-Y I'm sure



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 18th at 9:03pm 2004

My question is, how do they figure out diameter, distance from sun, ambient temperature etc. I mean, its not like we've been to the damn think to see for ourselves. [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Mar 18th at 9:07pm 2004

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My question is, how do they figure out diameter, distance from sun, ambient temperature etc. I mean, its not like we've been to the damn think to see for ourselves.

There ar many diffenent ways to get that stuff, mainly through light (eg it takes 60 min for that light to get to planet earth, multiply 300000km by 60 then by 60 again). But I see what you mean, its just a dot, so far away........

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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:08pm 2004

They can find the mass from close planets orbits (you have Kepler to thank.).. Such as that's how they found Neptune (or was it Pluto) well anyway one of them had a funky orbit and they couldn't figure out why and then they came to the conclusion that there was another planet out there. They went looking for it and then we had 9 planets in the solar system lol.

They calculate the tempurature of the planet based on it's distance from the sun in regards to planets it's near.

There's a lot more to it then all this though. But it gives you an idea of what they go through. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 18th at 9:09pm 2004

They launched a probe with a thermometer using them new ion drives... all that money to find out the ambient temperature to a planet we will never visit in our lifetimes... lol I hope thats not what they did. [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Mar 18th at 9:10pm 2004

And to think they could have spent that money somewhere else. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:11pm 2004

I guarantee you that we wont even know the tempurature in our lifetime lol.

That's a long f**king distance away ... I mean, we barley made it Mars, sheesh lol. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Mar 18th at 9:15pm 2004

so whens that lil space cruiser thing that NASA launched to mars gonna get there then, in the paper[the Sun lol] it said 2014! [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:16pm 2004

I want to know when the Japanese satalite will be launched to the moon to see if the rover is still there lol.

In other words, when are they going to try to disproove Nasa's supposedly staged moon landing?

"But the set for the moon landing is at Area 51"
"Fine, cancel the shoot and lets really land on the moon"

lol. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 18th at 9:17pm 2004

I wanna know what NASA is going to do with its shuttles [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Mar 18th at 9:19pm 2004

probably send a shuttle out to blow it up, then send out another shuttle to blow that one up....etc

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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:19pm 2004

...I don't know...

Just don't look behind you ... GET HIM BOYS! [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Mar 18th at 9:20pm 2004

LOL....crono u crack me up

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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 18th at 9:20pm 2004

I hear they're planning on letting the Hubble telescope die though. [addsig]




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