Brilliant! Tenth planet turns out to be a shiner

"Timo Nieminen" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, T Wake wrote:

In LIa0g.897423$x96.618399@attbi_s72, sent to sci.physics on Saturday
15
April 2006 19:12, Sam Wormley ) had a brainstorm and
wrote:
Coppy Littlehouse wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:

Want to take a guess at the first-most-shiny object in the SOLAR
system?

Enceladus

Nope, guess again.

Let's define "shiny" as reflective.

I am intrigued now. By the capitalisation in Coppy Littlehouse's post I
suspect the "*Correct*" answer is supposed to be the sun, yet I must
admit
I would have gone with Enceladus. It is reflective.

Does the sun count as "shiny?"

Not at all; it's not that far from being a blackbody. "Bright" yes,
"shiny" no.

That was my interpretation of it, which is why I am interested to see the
outcome of this :-) I hadn't included the sun as an option and I am
intrigued to see which planet is the most reflective. :-)