Planet X ?

If so, they are very cold aliens.

Also we posted (somewhere) about a new planet in a distant star system. So coolness.

But yes, the name sucks. We should have a better name for it. But what?
 
Greek mythology again, most likely.

We didn't have Athena yet.

Or perhaps they could like, conclude a sponsorship deal and call the planet Nikè...
 
Not Xena. It's Sedna, named after an in Inuit goddess.

And the naming rights are in dispute as 2 different groups of astronomers are claiming discovery.
 
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7763

Pluto was the only object known in the Kuiper belt until 1992, but since then astronomers have spotted hundreds more faint, icy bodies with orbits beyond Neptune. Five years ago, Brown's group began a systematic search for big Kuiper belt objects, which earlier yielded Quaoar - about 800 miles in diameter - and Sedna, previously the most distant object known at 91 times the earth's distance.

The survey also yielded the new planet and two other objects only slightly smaller than Pluto, which Brown kept quiet as he analysed the survey data and made new observations to learn more about the 2003 UB313.
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So, should we even consider those things planets? (including Pluto!)

Apparently it's a matter of debate among astronomers:

http://www.iac.es/galeria/mrk/Pluto_20000.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=3287
 
...but people just love Pluto so much (according to Mike Brown):

"I've been a strong proponent of saying Pluto is not a planet, (but) I've come to the conclusion that people love Pluto . . . and I should just let it go," Brown said.
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:lol:
 
El Chupacabra said:
Maybe they should call it Persephone ("Rupert") like Douglas Adams did in "Mostly Harmless" :)
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:lol:
The first thing I thought when I heard about it a couple days was how screwed astrologers will be.
 
Pluto isn't a damn planet and New Scientist is bloody untrustworthy for news of this type.

One's much larger, probably twice the size of Pluto so far, and way the hell out there and the other is a bit smaller but has a moon. Period. They're Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) just like Pluto is. They thought there was a planet out there, were looking for a planet and so when they finally found something, glee, they called it a planet and named it Pluto.

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1560_1.asp
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

Some of the scopes that found these things:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomarnew/sot.html
http://www.gemini.edu/home.php

I'll update with new stuff if I find it. - Colt
 
Fyu-jon!!! said:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7763

Pluto was the only object known in the Kuiper belt until 1992, but since then astronomers have spotted hundreds more faint, icy bodies with orbits beyond Neptune. Five years ago, Brown's group began a systematic search for big Kuiper belt objects, which earlier yielded Quaoar - about 800 miles in diameter - and Sedna, previously the most distant object known at 91 times the earth's distance.

The survey also yielded the new planet and two other objects only slightly smaller than Pluto, which Brown kept quiet as he analysed the survey data and made new observations to learn more about the 2003 UB313.
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So, should we even consider those things planets? (including Pluto!)

Apparently it's a matter of debate among astronomers:

http://www.iac.es/galeria/mrk/Pluto_20000.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=3287
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Who the hell pays people to stare at the sky and report what they see... if its taxes I say burn the places down and tell those people to get REAL jobs
 
When an undetected asteroid strikes the earth and destroys all civilization and we didn't see it coming because of your funding cuts, I'm going to blame you. :?
 
calculon000 said:
When an undetected asteroid strikes the earth and destroys all civilization and we didn't see it coming because of your funding cuts, I'm going to blame you. :?
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Pfff... It wouldn't really matter whether we saw it coming or not, would it? We'd be fucked one way or the other.

Nevertheless, astronomy is a good thing. They should pump more money into it, imo.

And that newly discovered Kuiper Belt Object should be called Titbit One. 'They say the shores of Titbit One are the most beautiful shores in the solar system.' See, that sounds great.
 
They should call it the planet "far far away"i mean it is probably beyond the moon and beyond the sun, far far away. We could shorten it dwn ofcourse and call it FFA, that has a nice ring to it does it not?
 
O_o didnt this happen 10 or so years ago... and they decided it was an asteroid? i could have sworn i heard about it a LONG way back.
 
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