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Planet IX, new possible planet in our solar system

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by RedRedemption, Jan 20, 2016.

  1. RedRedemption

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    http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22/meta

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

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  2. percicles

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    They did Pluto wrong
     
  3. LosPollosHermanos

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    Its like when you tell Bae that the reason you can't be together is because you don't wanna see anybody right now, only to walk into party of the year with another chick.

    ******* astronemers.
     
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    the rockets haven't won a championship in over a decade but the championship is out there for us to win it.
     
  5. Jontro

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    I got yo back Pluto. **** this new bisch trying to break up our fam.
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    I thought Planet TX was that "Ron Paul" bong store in Bee Cave that they made take the mural down?
     
  7. heypartner

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    "The he International Astronomical Union placed Pluto in a new category, “dwarf planet,” because in its view, a full-fledged planet must be the gravitational bully of its orbit, and Pluto was not."

    So they are saying Pluto isn't a bully. He allows others to have their way as much as him...a cooperative back n forth.

    What kind of lesson is that for our children to demote Pluto just because he isn't a bully.
     
  8. Vigorous

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    Pluto is offended.
     
  9. Ottomaton

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    This was the same rationale they used back in the 1800's to claim there was a gas giant planet outside of Neptune.

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    Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the giant planets, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

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    It turns out they just didn't understand what was actually happening well enough.

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    The search was largely abandoned in the early 1990s, when a study of measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft found that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit were due to a slight overestimation of Neptune's mass.

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    The problem with Pluto as a planet is that there are other things out there and several of them are larger than Pluto.

    If Pluto gets to be a planet, then the Solar System has at least 13 or so planets, unless you arbitrarily say that Pluto gets to be a planet, but the stuff discovered later, which more fully fit the definition of a planet, don't get to be planets.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50000_Quaoar
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90482_Orcus

    and undoubtedly more.
     
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  10. LosPollosHermanos

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    You just proved you're a POH. Keep the hate flowin yo.
     
  11. percicles

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    You sound like my ex girlfriend.
     
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  12. Buck Turgidson

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    You realize we named every moon in our solar system except our own?
     
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    It would be pretty funny if the planet was habitable and had water. But it goes to show you how primitive we really are. We don't even know what's in our own solar system. We've only got detailed maps of like 5% of the ocean and that covers 70% of the earth. And we only have a vague idea of what's below our own feet, let alone seen it. We have a lot of work to do. The human brain still a mystery. I do give credit to the human genome project though which successfully delivered the sequencing of the human genome to a degree.
     
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    Nice post.

    Very interesting this new data. Probably won't take more than 5 years to find it if it's there.

    It has the name Luna and Selene.
     
  15. Jontro

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    Yeah but our moon is made of cheese and has a rabbit.
     
  16. The Stig

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    So, you heard about Pluto? That's messed up, right?
     
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    By comparing the perturbed posts in the GARM and NBA draft forums my calculations over the past decade lead me to conclude there is a hidden forum somewhere between the two. I will continue my search with a larger monitor and a keen eye.
     
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    Saturn say's call me when that bih get iced out rings tho.

    #levels
     
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    USA Today is HUGE!

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    I like the name Ix.
     

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