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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/...ience_pluto_dc
Now the order of planets is
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
Xena(to be renamed later)
Not only this but now they are giving categories for planets
Pluto, Charon and Xena are to be called Pluton planets. Ceres would be a dwarf planet.
What do you make of this stuffs?
It ruins My Very Efficient Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas. :(
Pluto must be so proud. Its moon is the only one to ever grow up to become its own planet.
My
Very
Efficent
Mother
Can
Just
Serve
Us
Nine
Properly
Canned
Xylophones(I don't know)
EDIT: Yeah...pluto must be pround of the little squirt. All grown up and on it's own now. Brings a tear to my eye ;_;
I remember when my moon, Ur, joined the Solar System. Oh what a proud day it was for the Anus family! :bigsmile:
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Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
:aimhappy: :-D :rock:&:roll:
Ah, true true!
Im really not bothered xD
But I think its quite sad that I listen to a band named after one of the plants, Charon ;__; Its also wierd that they just came on Winamp.
Haha, this will screw over all the astronomy books.
Am I still a Libra? :confused:
The planets changed, not the months =PQuote:
Originally Posted by Kentarou
That's pretty cool actually. I've always had somewhat of an interest in astronomy. I really like the names Charon and Ceres.
For the record...Ceres WAS a planet back in the 1800s. It has just been...reactivated.
It'll be a Siberian winter in Hell before I recognise Neptune.
Amen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
Better a Zuton than a Pluton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
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 Ćżć2
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 !!!!
OOps. Subject to ratification later this month huh? Looks like I mis-read that but based on the new definition they will be ratified. I don't disagree with what they did. Now every thing will be called a planet but there will be different classes of planets. I kind of like the fact that they are better defining these things. With all the advancements we have made the definitions would need to be updated...or at least I think they would be.
True
What I don't get is when you have two stars together, they get one name and call it a binary star. So I don't understand why when you have two planets in partnership (pluto/charon) it wasn't called a binary planet
It is being called that. Anyway, the classification for such things depends on where the center of mass around which the bodies orbit is. If it is outside both bodies, it is a binary system. If it inside one of the bodies, it is a planet/moon system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
I've never really liked Pluto. I dun believe it should've ever been there in the first place. -__-
Yes, much agreed. I'm going to complain to my old science teacher and we can poke fun at it all day. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Blitz Ace
Size directly has nothing to do with it (Although your "800km wide" comment is about one third of its actual diameter); to be a planet a body must be large enough to be rendered spherical by gravitational effects, and not so large as to cause fusion to occur, among other criteria.
Xena.... warrior princess.
I rented part of the first season the other day, just for old times' sake :p <33 That show got really kooky some seasons in, though o_o
Anyyy wayXD I honestly don't care about the planets. I learned it and it was all spiff in elementary school but what good will it do me in life?^_^ *flies a spaceship to Neptune*
Well, extraplanetary expansion is the future of our species and all, soo...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojee
I like the name Ceres :]
Not if I DESTROY everything first >:D! Besides there's no way we would want to go live in Pluto or Xena or whatever ;D
Soon we'll have 981 planets and then the little elementary kids will really have a time learning them :(
As has been said, we're adding more planets, but we're accommodating for it by categorizing them. Kids in the future will probably only be asked to remember the principal planets, not the dwarf ones.
Also, Joy, come on. You're not going to destroy anything and you know it. Let's just get serious here.
Just because I love pink and girly stuff and squee ^___^ and cry in Disney films and thought that Minority Report was a scary movie does not mean that I won't destroy the world.
She destroyed my heart. But Ceres still loves meQuote:
Also, Joy, come on. You're not going to destroy anything and you know it
whoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
Don't make fun on Neptune >=( And these new planets suck.
so your saying if its smaller than our moon its to small to be a planet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitz Acewhoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
o_O
WOW.
NASA must be bored.
This is the International Astronomical Union, not NASA.
I'm just glad that they're sorting out the mess of what a planet is or isn't.
I really don't care how many more planets there are, I'm still probably only going to remember the original 9.
:D I can, however, see myself telling children of the future stories about the good ol' days when there were only nine planets and the Cosby Show reruns were still on TV and that's the way we liked it.
I'm about to take an Astronomy class this fall. I know we'll be talking all about this stuff.
I honestly can't see all these sticking, or even being remembered a few years down the line by astrologers and the public alike. It just sounds to me like some guy trying to make a quick name for himself by ambiguously coming up with new planets that aren't even technically real planets...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasura
While they're adding new planets to the solar system, why don't they change the name of Uranus, to stop that stupid joke once and for all?
Sooner or later they will find the planet where JENOVA came from. :bigsmile:
Man everyone needs to stop obsessing over the Xena name. I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the show from the 90s. If they want to add more planets to our so called solar system, let them. If they want to classify pluto, ceres, charon and "xena" pluton planets, they can. This is still all up in the air as well it's not official. Anyway, some people need to just relax. Planets are... planets. We happen to live on one and there are others like it in space. Whoa, huge crisis there. :rolleyes2 It's not your job, nor is it mine. It's upto those in the committee to decide.
yippie!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas
... well, IMO yeh. i reckon they should have some size minimum, (not just talk about whether it can keep itself in a spherical shape), and stop worrying about the small things far away in our solar system which no ordinary person will probably ever know or care about. they can classify them as plutons or dwarfs or whatever, but not planets.Quote:
Originally Posted by link31793so your saying if its smaller than our moon its to small to be a planet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitz Acewhoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
or they could just leave it as it is. as aisle_s said, most people will prob only ever remember the original 9 planets.
good point, they should :pQuote:
Originally Posted by OdaiseGaelach
It's named after a Roman deity, can you suggest a replacement?Quote:
Originally Posted by OdaiseGaelach
Xena? That is sad. Whatever happened to the good old days when planets were given cool names like Uranus? I say before these planet names are ratified, we put Marick in charge of renaming em. (all).
Bipper
I bet you feel like an ass
I should add that these 'planets' have yet to be officially ammended.
WHAT? Wait, I'm confused by this article. Are they adding four more?
edit:// o.o Nevermind.
Actually it does. When someone finds a new celestial body they give it a temproary name until the International Astronomical Union can give it an official one. This guy named it after Xena. Who knows, maybe they'll have renamed it by the end of the convention.Quote:
Originally Posted by feona17
Well, 3 more planets offically. Charon, Ceres and one provisionally called 'Xena'.
Wierdest thing is that the 'planet' Charon has actually been called a moon of Pluto's for the past few decades even though they are roughly the same size.
That's not a nice thing to say :(...Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
But, yeah, don't be too surprised if this Thread is closed down very soon.
Edit by Kishi: Don't double-post.
Lost Number should know I am joking, as I have nothing but love and respect and flowers for the guy. :love:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dellas18That's not a nice thing to say :(...Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
But, yeah, don't be too surprised if this Thread is closed down very soon.
finally. you have ANY idea how hard it is to get a thread closed round here?
It's only because you're a Pirate Red Mage with a sniper rifle. People are afraid to close your threads. As it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lost Number
The real question is, "How many planets will they find in Uranus!"
...no?
Oh, but still. And bipper, i dont believe a word of it.
I love good ol' spam. This is a great forum but it's a pity they don't let you fill Threads with nonsense. Some other Forums I use... man, i just go crazy filling the threads with as much Spam as is humanly possible! Nothing beats writing Post after Post of solid crap.
We know they are not going to add all these other planets this year. They will phase them in over the next 5 years or so.
Sing it sister! Uh huh! Uh huh!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dellas18
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Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
I will be using my unwielding GOE to subtract a few planets over the next five years. I like 9. It is a nice, even, rounded number
Yeah! And divisible by 3!Quote:
Originally Posted by bipperQuote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
I will be using my unwielding GOE to subtract a few planets over the next five years. I like 9. It is a nice, even, rounded number
Clearly a British plot.
Heh imagine they name it Celes :D
DefinitlyQuote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
Why give planets stupid names like Pluto, Ceres or Charon?
Why can't they give a planet a nice, normal name like John or Harold? Or maybe Geoff? What's wrong with Stanley?
Urectum?Quote:
Originally Posted by starseeker
Stanley is a loser name and Geoff...Sounds like Giraff. It is also a loser name. Why not leave it all scientific. I want to travel to planet ZBA921 of the UNI394 solar system! That would rock all sorts of ass!
looking at your sig, we should have a planet named 'Unleash the Fury'
sounds a lot better then 'Jupiter' or smurfin' 'Saturn'.
Or... I got one. How about naming the next planet 'Old Manus'.
Its got a nice ring to it!
They gave them crappy names!!! That's all I wanna say...
(lol xena, what the heck)
The two threads have been merged.
Isn't Pluto closer to the Sun every so often because of it's abnormal orbit?
Yes. The paths of Neptune and Pluto cross every now and then which makes Pluto closer every so many hundreds of years. One day...I bet they will collide and then pluto will become a moon of Neptune.
You think you'll be around when that happens?Quote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
Because I bet you Ł10,000 it don't happen? :D Come on! Show me your cash!
Sorry. I don't except pounds as payment. $$$ or Euros plz.
No bet then. Pound sterling is greatest currency in the entire solar system.
Shall i pay you in Gil instead?
Whatever happened to Ophiucus, the starsign?
What makes you think something happened to it?
Nobody liked him, so they pretended he didn't exist...Quote:
Originally Posted by mobiletype
This is retarded.. I mean.. If we're going to name something a planet... atleast let it be something way out there so we can be all "OH HEY! THERE'S SOMETHING THAT MAY QUALIFY AS A PLANET BUT IT WAS TO FAR AWAY" not find an asteroid/potential planet and go "Hey wow, I think you should be a planet, and we're going to screw you up and throw you in between Mars and Jupiter to confuse all the little boys and girls!" ... Charon and Xena warrior princess are like... the kind you can pass off.. well not really Charon because it went from moon to planet, as apparently Ceres' the asteroid can. I say we make the moon a planet, and while we're at it, we'll just call Jupiter a full fledged star, and we'll make Jupiter and Saturns largest moons planets as well! *waves arms around*
That isn't possible because at the time that Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, it is no where near Neptune due to it being above the plane.Quote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
http://www.scienzita.it/lezioni/scie...luto-orbit.jpg
9 is not an even number...Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
I bet as soon as this get ratified there will be astrologers that will try to make a quick buck. Seeing as Ares and Scorpio once shared Mars as their influencing planet until the discovery of Pluto, I bet there will be people making books saying how the new planets will influence your life.
Anyways, I really think they should eventually use Minerva as a name. It just sounds cool.
Of course. That is part of the humor of the post. It is not a round number either. Nor is it nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan9 is not an even number...Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
No one gets me :mad2:
Sounds good to me. We need a Hebe as well... sorry, Juventas.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
Your picture doesn't help your point. The picture makes it look like pluto has 3 chances to crash into Neptune every pluto year.Quote:
Originally Posted by starseekerThat isn't possible because at the time that Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, it is no where near Neptune due to it being above the plane.Quote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
http://www.scienzita.it/lezioni/scie...luto-orbit.jpg
actually, it is very possible that Pluto and Neptune could collide. It's just that it will take a few million years. It isn't like they revolve around the sun at the same speed. Sooner or later, if their paths keep crossing, they are bound to collide.
Whether something is a planet or a moon depends on where the center of mass is around which they orbit. Because the barycenter is outside both bodies in the case of Pluto and Charon, it is a binary planet system. If, however, the center of mass is inside one of the bodies, that body is the planet (Assuming it meets the other criteria), and the other body is a moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avarice-ness
Minvera was actually considered as a name for Uranus, but wasn't adopted. We do have an asteroid 93Minverva.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dignified Pauper
There is a z axis not represented by that picture which seperates the orbits, or so I think she is saying that. Luckily, I only buy mars and moon real estate. Anyone buying up the bridges on the outer-planets is a freakin moron.Quote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnmThank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dignified Pauper
Bipper