Evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past Pluto at solar system's edge
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Cool.
Evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past Pluto at solar system's edge
http://gu.com/p/4g24t?CMP=Share_Andr...y_to_clipboard
Cool.
They should name it after a woman.
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.
That's the next lads holiday sorted.
This stuff absolutely fascinates me.
You just want to long range probe it.Originally Posted by Magic
We already have Venus.
Don't forget Mother Earth.
That's one way around a restraining order.
Bring this (female planets) up in that tranny Facebook group you're in, Boydy.
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.
PoCs have Venus.
We could call it Wolf to incorporate trans-species people.
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.
Shit, good point. How about Mohammed?
Pluto's still a planet to me, damn it.
I'd imagine you have more of an attachment to it than the rest of us Ian, since you remember it being discovered.
Don't make us declassify you too Ian.
I remember it seeming really tiny, Randrew, both in comparison to other planets and your mum.
She'll have the ladle out for you lad, then you'll be sorry.
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
I think it's at least partly because it being there would support theories about the evolution of the solar system.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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoth...h_giant_planet
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.
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.
Well, yeah. Even the Caltech guys leading the research on this have said there's a 90% chance it exists.
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
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