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Should we start the argument...
… is pluto really a planet?
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rangutan
München
Is Jupiter not a planet but rather a twin Sun?
Chris, Pluto has a very strange path around the sun bringing it closer to the Sun than Neptune sometimes. This suggests it was a moon or alien object once. No matter were is came from or what it was BEFORE, it is a planet now, Saturn and Jupiter too!
rangutan
München
Pluto demoted!
Pluto got demoted yesterday! It is not worthy being called a planet anymore :-( shame
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9818-astronomers-lean-towards-eight-planets.html
You win Chris :-)
Next: are Saturn and Jupiter not of gas and really part of a burnt out 3-sun solar system?
HeroOfTheWorld
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Pluto is Technically Still A Planet
I am known for my ablility to find loopholes easily, and one that I found in this whole Pluto thing is that Pluto is technically still considered a planet to all scientists. It’s just that it has one word before the word planet: that word is dwarf. Pluto’s status now tells us that it is a “dwarf planet”. Now, isn’t the word planet in that phrase? Someone please correct me if I’m wrong…
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The Hero Of The World
leannaBananaAGAIN
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PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET
i am in year 10 and recently learning about planets big bang all that stuff and i have found out pluto is not a planet it is a dwarf planet and it is to small . it could be a star
rangutan
München
10th planet "Xena"
In 2003 an object larger than Pluto was discovered about 97 times the distance of the Earth from the sun, 97 AUs (Pluto is at about 40AU). After a few years of observation and discovering that it also has a moon of its own, the objects name was changed from “2003 UB313” to planet “Xena” and internationally acknowledged. Its discovery was no surprise to mathematicians since all mass in the solar system can be accounted for but there is always some missing! Each planet is roughly double the distance from the sun as the previous. The 11th planet, let’s call it “Rangutan” for now, will be found roughly at 180-200 AUs, a twelvth, say “Benson”, at around 400 AU perhaps too. After that interstellical gravity may be greater than that from our solar system?
Ref: http://www.tenthplanet.info/
[A 2500 strong commision in Prage removed Pluto from the list of planets on 2006-08-23]
