There's another fucking planet!

[Boydy]

Evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past Pluto at solar system's edge

http://gu.com/p/4g24t?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

Cool.

[Lewis]

They should name it after a woman.

[Magic]

Can't help but feel there's an overriding white male dominant feel about the current 8 planets. I agree with Leud, call it Loquisha.

[Manc]

That's the next lads holiday sorted.

[Smiffy]

:drool:

This stuff absolutely fascinates me.

[Disco]

Can't help but feel there's an overriding white male dominant feel about the current 8 planets. I agree with Leud, call it Loquisha.

You just want to long range probe it.

[Pepe]

We already have Venus.

[Offshore Toon]

Don't forget Mother Earth.

[Lewis]

You just want to long range probe it.

That's one way around a restraining order.

[Offshore Toon]

Bring this (female planets) up in that tranny Facebook group you're in, Boydy.

[Pepe]

Women already have Venus and Earth as the QE Offy pointed out. Pluto was pretty gay and don't even get me started on Uranus. I say it is time for POCs to get one. I suggest naming it Neal deGrasse Tyson. Or Obama.

[Boydy]

PoCs have Venus.

[Magic]

We could call it Wolf to incorporate trans-species people.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sticking to the Roman god theme, and avoiding ones which have been used for other stuff like Apollo and Vulcan, we're realistically looking at Bacchus. Get the beers in.

[Pepe]

PoCs have Venus.

Shit, good point. How about Mohammed?

[Ian]

Pluto's still a planet to me, damn it.

[randomlegend]

I'd imagine you have more of an attachment to it than the rest of us Ian, since you remember it being discovered.

[Disco]

Don't make us declassify you too Ian.

[Ian]

I remember it seeming really tiny, Randrew, both in comparison to other planets and your mum.

[randomlegend]

:D

She'll have the ladle out for you lad, then you'll be sorry.

[Spammer]

I dont get why this is news. I'll have to read it properly but Eris, Makemake and a bunch of others have been known about for years. The discovery of fuckloads of other things past Pluto was in large part the reason for Pluto losing its planet status - because if it remained a planet then you'd have to include Eris, Makemake, Haumea, maybe even Ceres and then whatever then fuck else we discover onto the list.

Ceres has had a tough deal really as its not much smaller than Pluto and has been known about for longer, but its in the asteroid belt so it doesn't get taken seriously.

Edit: Four times the size of Earth. Ok then. Need to read the article first :D

[Toby]

I dont get why this is news. I'll have to read it properly but Eris, Makemake and a bunch of others have been known about for years. The discovery of fuckloads of other things past Pluto was in large part the reason for Pluto losing its planet status - because if it remained a planet then you'd have to include Eris, Makemake, Haumea, maybe even Ceres and then whatever then fuck else we discover onto the list.

Ceres has had a tough deal really as its not much smaller than Pluto and has been known about for longer, but its in the asteroid belt so it doesn't get taken seriously.

Edit: Four times the size of Earth. Ok then. Need to read the article first :D

I think it's at least partly because it being there would support theories about the evolution of the solar system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_fifth_giant_planet

[Spammer]

Yeah I've read a bit about 'planet X' theories, although they mostly involve a planet tearing through the solar system every 100,000 years and fucking up everyone orbit and chucking asteroids everywhere. Will give that a read, cheers.

[Henry]

I know this is from a fairly credible source, but we've been hearing this kind of thing for years. The NASA guy on the news this morning wasn't writing it off, but did say that a lot of further verification was needed.

[Toby]

Well, yeah. Even the Caltech guys leading the research on this have said there's a 90% chance it exists.

[John Arne]

My initial reaction was 'how has this only just been discovered' (given its on our solar system), then I saw that it had an orbit of 10,000-20,000 years :drool: