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 Are there other planets in our solar system?
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Cool Novice 
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We all know of the basic 9 planets in the milky way galaxy but that is all.Scientist are constently looking for new planets have they found any?     | ||
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Cyborg    
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we found #10 and possibly more. ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 422 |
I guess that changes the ol' saying: My-------------------Mercury Interesting!!! | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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You'd think they come come up with a better name for a planet than Uranus. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
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Maybe they could rename it CrazyThug. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 77 |
They could name it Myanus or "a place where the mile long alien dick fucks wet horny underage mutant women" | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
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There 9 in our solar system but there have been a couple of dozen extrasolar planets discovered by now. Astromoners can't actually see the planets but they can tell they are there because the stars they travel around move slightly and they can measure that. So far they are all big gas giants like jupiter and saturn, no earth-like planets. [This message has been edited by SMASH NZ (edited February 13, 2001).] | ||
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Cool Novice
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What are the names of Saturn's moons does anyone know? Because I don't. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 161 |
Saturns moons are: Titan Rhea Iapetus Dione Tethys Mimas Enceladus Hyperion  | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 406 |
Recently, scholars at the Museum of Natural History in New York just claimed that Pluto is not a planet, but an asteroid. It's orbit is not on the same plane as the other planets and apparently, it's density and chemical composition differ, too. I don't remember all of the details, but if you go to the museum and see their diarama of the solar system, it doesn't include Pluto. If they're right, that would only leave 8. | ||
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Cyborg
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There have been recent reports of a tenth and 11th planet within our solar system. This has been discovered by the pertubation of the orbit of Pluto. Pluto is a planet, just because it is not in the same plane, (none of the planets are) it is much larger than any comet, and what is a planet anyway? The outer four giants Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are all gaseous bodies, while Venus, Earth and Mars are solid bodies with atmoshpheres and Mercury is a hunk of rock. Pluto is thought to be either a hunk of rock like Mercury or an ice body. Neptune I believe has its spin axis aligned with the plane of its orbit. That makes for one odd creature in our solar system. Geometric oddities exist and that does not make something not a planet. Yes, proto planets, proto stars and proto galaxies have been observed. Some by the wobbles in a stars spin and others by direct observation using the Hubble telescope. But I would suggest doing a search on planet x as it is called right now, although I seem to remember it being given a name. ------------------ | ||
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Cyborg
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Here is just one link. http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/atenth.html ------------------ | ||
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Cyborg
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Here is another more interesting link http://www.xfacts.com/x2.htm ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
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Chesty - I was just sharing what I read on the New York Times site. here's a brief quote: quote: the link to the full article is: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/science/13PLUT.html but I think you might need to register on their site to access it. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
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Isn't it amazing just how big all of this is, our star is just one of 2 billion or so in our galaxy, and our galaxy is just one of countless million's other galaxies. I hope in my lifetime we travel out of our solar system and reach the stars but being realistic I guess that won't happen. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 77 |
yeah SMASH, that's what I have always thought, makes one feel dizzy  ) | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 19 |
Do you think that there is life on other planets in other galaxies? | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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AquaRay, it would be obsurd to think their wasn't ever(btw fuck the Drake equation, it proves nothing). However, in all likelihood their distance from us is so great and/or they existed in this universe during another time so we will never see them... I was under the impression that Pluto's (and charons) chemical composition was similar to that of a commet. This would make some sense considering the oort cloud and all... puc out... | ||
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Mutant  
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AuayRay...you should go look for it ...right away...time is of the essence darling!!! | ||
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Cyborg
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We are not really sure what the composition of Pluto is. What constitutes a planet? Planet x is possibley 1 to 10 times the size of Jupiter. It may actually be a brown dwarf or a failed star, which is different than Jupiter. Why should the Drake equation be ignored? It is just a statistical probability of the number of intelligent civilizations from what I remember. All it is saying is that here is one possibility for the number. We have no reference to start from, not even remotely. So, he had to start somewhere and he made an assumption. Is that so bad? Yes, you can group things into family's and members, but astronomers still refer to the individual bodies as planets and anything that is orbiting a planet is a moon, and from what I understand there is no clear cut definition of what does or does not constitute a planet. Pluto is large enough to affect the orbit of Neptune and that effect is what led to the search for pluto. Now, all the comets I know of are not large enough to produce any measureable affect upon a body so large as Neptune or for that matter the Earth or Mercury which is about the same size as Pluto if I remember correctly, maybe a bit larger. ------------------ |
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