10th Planet From the Sun

[sbjafri]

they found that ages ago i think.

[AlLoCuRa]

AMG!
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[darkrayne]

i thought they found a 10th planet ages ago, i must be wrong then if they just discovered one now. anywayz, pretty cool they finding a new one just makes you wondering if there is any others out there which we cant see yet.

They started talking about the 10th planet a while ago... but they kept saying things like it can't be a real planet.

Unless you aren't talking about Planet X/Ottawa Object/Vulcan/Transpluto/or any of the other various names given it, at least.

I've already done a bit of research on Planet X... two main reasons that it probably isn't real are:

1) It's said to have a highly olipitical orbit, which is why we haven't seen it until just now. This orbit would make the planet unstable and it would have already either been thrown off into outer space somewhere or it would have stabled itself and become a normal planet.

2) NASA was said to have photographed Planet X in 1983. As it turns out, they only had found a distant galaxy and the media went wild and put a ton of words in NASA's mouth... thus, the 'discovery' of a tenth planet. They're probably doing the same thing again.


There have been a few people who thought they'd seen or gotten pictures of a 10th planet, but so far it's always turned out to be something else.

[Tupac]

doesnt the name suggest it was found in 2003 :eh: lol and surely if its that far out another star would be closer to it not like our sun is the only star out there

[aznzero]

why do they name a planet like a damn computer! why dont they call it 10thplan! lol

[Ionic & Schizo]

doesnt the name suggest it was found in 2003 :eh: lol and surely if its that far out another star would be closer to it not like our sun is the only star out there

The nearest star to the Sun is 4.2 light years away (Proxima Centuari). The Next 2 nearest stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centuri B both of which are 4.3 light years away.

1 light year = the distance light travels in 1 year = about 9,460,800,000,000 km
So the nearest star is roughly 39,735,360,000,000 km away.

Now the site claims that this planet is 97 AU away.
1 AU = Dist between Sun and Earth = about 150,000,000 km
So this planet is around 14,550,000,000 km from the sun.

A LOT closer to the Sun than any other star by a long shot.
About 2,700 times closer tbh.
:smartass: :nerd:

[exclamatio]

The nearest star to the Sun is 4.2 light years away (Proxima Centuari). The Next 2 nearest stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centuri B both of which are 4.3 light years away.
1 light year = the distance light travels in 1 year = about 9,460,800,000,000 km
So the nearest star is roughly 39,735,360,000,000 km away.
Now the site claims that this planet is 97 AU away.
1 AU = Dist between Sun and Earth = about 150,000,000 km
So this planet is around 14,550,000,000 km from the sun.
A LOT closer to the Sun than any other star by a long shot.
About 2,700 times closer tbh.
:smartass: :nerd:

as always u impress me man

damn u know your shit :D

[Kenneth the Tree]

as always u impress me man
damn u know your shit :D

No..."www.google.com" Pah :(

[mutation]

Uranus had the the irregularity in it's orbit. When astronomers looked at where it should have been in the sky through there telescopes it was always off slightly. Using a bit of *yawn* maths they caluated where an object should lie that could addect Uranus in such a way and BAM!
They found Neptune.But further observations found that Neptune wasn't massive enough to distrupt Uranus so they must it implied that they was something more out there.
Pluto was found after hours of the mind numbingly dull process of looking at 2 pictures of the same patch of sky taken a few days or weeks apart. Astronomers thought this could be the planet to explain it all but with the fact that Pluto is smaller than our Moon, this too was still to small to account for all these things they were seeing out there.
The search goes on. Kinda.
If I find it I'll see if I can called it RageZonenia.
NO!! :ohmy: That means my next
3yrs in uni will mean nothing!

omg ionic an intelligent comment =O and theres me thinking you wherre just crazy LOL

[Becky]

The nearest star to the Sun is 4.2 light years away (Proxima Centuari). The Next 2 nearest stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centuri B both of which are 4.3 light years away.
1 light year = the distance light travels in 1 year = about 9,460,800,000,000 km
So the nearest star is roughly 39,735,360,000,000 km away.
Now the site claims that this planet is 97 AU away.
1 AU = Dist between Sun and Earth = about 150,000,000 km
So this planet is around 14,550,000,000 km from the sun.
A LOT closer to the Sun than any other star by a long shot.
About 2,700 times closer tbh.
:smartass: :nerd:

Go to Oprah!
Go to Oprah!

I wish I knew what a centuri was :(

[Robert]

pluto isnt a planet anyway......