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Ceres CLEARLY doesn't qualify.
Also.
I want to know where the line is drawn between binary planets, and planet/moons.
Edit: MILF went and learned his spacey, so now he retracts those comments. Ceres DOES qualify, and a binary planet system occurs when the barycenter is outside the masses of both objects.
Which I actually knew anyway, but... I... my brain entirely failed. =(
My Very Easy Method Can Just Speed Up Naming Planets, Can Xena's?
There, I just saved a billion young minds. Go me.
What's a planet?
No, seriously.
A planet is a celestial body (i.e. something that orbits a sun), that is of sufficient mass to produce a near spherical shape. So an asteroid for example, like those found on the asteroid belt of our solar system, are not planets because they are very small and thusly do not produce enough gravity to create a spherical shape. This is just the current system that has actually caused these changes.Quote:
Originally Posted by oddler
I like Charon! :D
I DON'T CARE! :D
It's not official yet.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/1899058.cms
They're naming a planet after a warrior princess? Woag. Anyways, my acronym-making days are officially over as of now. I ain't ever gettin' one with 'x'. :mad2:
Xenophobe starts with X =D?
"Xena" is just a nickname that's being used as a placeholder until they give it a proper name from Greco-Roman mythology.
*Holds breath*Quote:
subject to ratification by a vote of IAU members on August 24
Whoohoo!!! Just three more to go! lol
Man, that's dumb. :(
How so?Quote:
Originally Posted by Æ¿æƒ2
what a stupid move... the only reason they are trying to change the definition of a planet, to include these small, cold, uninteresting masses is so that they can remove the guilt of wrongfully classifying pluto as a planet in the first place!!!
Really, Pluto is only just 800 kilometres wide, and a lot smaller than was first thought when they classified it as a planet... "Xena" or 2003 UB 313 as it was first named, is definitely larger than Pluto, as are at least 50 or so other celestial bodies (including Charon and Ceres - which is located in the asteroid belt between jupiter and mars) already discovered within our solar system, 12 of which are also being considered for "Planet" status.
Id hate to see the rhyme for remembering the names of planets reach a full paragraph in length... they should just remove Pluto from the definition of planet, and stick with the 8 planets we actually have.
Wow after reading that ... it became apparent how little i really care :P
Honestly ... i fail to see why it matters (?)
now if i became a planet .. that would be news >.<
but since i am not, Go Xena Go !!!!