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There may be a planet out beyond Pluto that is 30-70% Earth's mass,but it still won't be a planet?
For comparison:
Mercury: 5% Earth's mass Mars: 10% Earth's mass Venus: 88% Earth's mass Yet an object bigger than either Mercury or Mars, in orbit around the Sun, would not be a planet? Interesting. SPACE.com -- Large 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto "If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known "plutoid."" http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...-planet-x.html |
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There may be a planet out beyond Pluto that is 30-70% Earth's mass, but it still won't be a planet?
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
... For comparison: Mercury: 5% Earth's mass Mars: 10% Earth's mass Venus: 88% Earth's mass Yet an object bigger than either Mercury or Mars, in orbit around the Sun, would not be a planet? Interesting. SPACE.com -- Large 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto "If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known "plutoid."" http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...-planet-x.html If something that big exists (very speculative) and it has betrayed its presence by dynamical effects on other large bodies, then it would be a planet by the "cleared it orbital path" part of the definition, however badly that bit is worded. Wait and see. There have been previous claims that outer solar system dynamics are due to a large planet, and none of these claims came to anything. -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply) |
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There may be a planet out beyond Pluto that is 30-70% Earth'smass, but it still won't be a planet?
On Jun 20, 9:51*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:
For comparison: Mercury: 5% Earth's mass Mars: 10% Earth's mass Venus: 88% Earth's mass Yet an object bigger than either Mercury or Mars, in orbit around the Sun, would not be a planet? Interesting. SPACE.com -- Large 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto "If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known "plutoid.""http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080618-planet-x.html Pluto is a planet. One sees a table, and because it is smaller it is still a table. It is the shape. Pluto is round and has three Moons and as a planet it goes around the Sun. Now if Saturn and Jupiter would cross paths, which one would not be a planet? The answer is 'ridiculous', and Pluto is a planet. |
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There may be a planet out beyond Pluto that is 30-70% Earth'smass, but it still won't be a planet?
On Jun 21, 2:55*am, " wrote:
On Jun 20, 9:51*am, Yousuf Khan wrote: For comparison: Mercury: 5% Earth's mass Mars: 10% Earth's mass Venus: 88% Earth's mass Yet an object bigger than either Mercury or Mars, in orbit around the Sun, would not be a planet? Interesting. SPACE.com -- Large 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto "If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known "plutoid.""http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080618-planet-x.html Pluto is a planet. One sees a table, and because it is smaller it is still a table. It is the shape. Pluto is round and has three Moons and as a planet it goes around the Sun. Now if Saturn and Jupiter would cross paths, which one would not be a planet? The answer is 'ridiculous', and Pluto is a planet. If it has things called moons, it must be a planet. The Sun's moons are planets, the planets' moons are moons. Pluto has moons, orbits around the Sun as a planet. A planet has no rules, because a planet orbits around the Sun, it is the Sun's moon, a round object with considerable planetary shape, round, natural. The Sun defines a planet as it rotates around the Sun. If planets cross and have no perfect round paths, then planets cross paths. One cannot point to an object that is five times the size of Jupiter and it orbits the Sun that it is not a Sun's planet. Most people would have a peace of mind having Pluto back as a planet in our solar system. |
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There may be a planet out beyond Pluto that is 30-70% Earth'smass, but it still won't be a planet?
On Jun 21, 2:55*am, " wrote:
On Jun 20, 9:51*am, Yousuf Khan wrote: For comparison: Mercury: 5% Earth's mass Mars: 10% Earth's mass Venus: 88% Earth's mass Yet an object bigger than either Mercury or Mars, in orbit around the Sun, would not be a planet? Interesting. SPACE.com -- Large 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto "If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known "plutoid.""http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080618-planet-x.html Pluto is a planet. One sees a table, and because it is smaller it is still a table. It is the shape. Pluto is round and has three Moons and as a planet it goes around the Sun. Now if Saturn and Jupiter would cross paths, which one would not be a planet? The answer is 'ridiculous', and Pluto is a planet. Crazy politics, crazy science, crazy determinations, categorizations, ideas, Western brain of marxes of power in the heads, false ideas, subjectively lame aptitudes, impersonal control, religion, and elements of easy discriminations where things are falsly categorized and manipulated as a sick mundane. |
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