The 10th World
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4730061.stm

:D

This is the tenth planet found and confirmed :tu: Only 8 planets have been discovered in the history of the world :Yikes: (obviously that doesnt include discovering the planet earth which some people still seem to have trouble with :disturbd: ).

Why is this not a bigger news item? I think it is a historical scientific moment.

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Why haven't they got the picture I saw on BBC 24 this morning?They had the planet ringed so we could check it out.I also remember something about it taking 500 years to orbit the sun...Mind I may have misheard. ;)

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Try here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm not the best picture but at least this one shows the reigon of space.


:doh: Should have checked the date (what an idiot)

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That is what I was wondering.

And who is going to name it? Can't keep calling it 2003 UB313 :erm:

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I hope Sedna is a real planet of some kind and is given such a title, it may be something we need to happen to give moral to people to boost exploration of space.

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Sedna?


Bah. They should call it Mondas ;)

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how about aphraditea (excuse the spelling) for all those that love is so far away :romance:

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don't they have to confirm the presence of Cybermen, first :p: :D

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If you are into the hhgttu then its named Rupert :D

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They should call it The wondrous 10th planet of unimaginable doom and evil. That would get headlines, trust me

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:D How about it being called Planet Jedi

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A bit long for the entry in the encyclopedia though...and it just doesn't have that ring to it.How about Deathstar? :D

Though the way I hear it another fancied name is Xena.I was also wondering which major greek gods names were left, that haven't been used in the solar system so far.A female one for a change..Hera,Athena,Demeter,Persephone?

Andromeda has been used I believe elsewhere in the cosmos.

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How about

Borg 7

Hmmm.. :D

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Whhy should Mars have all the fun! Lets name it Toffee Crisp

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Sol. 10
Terra 10
Hades
Cerberus
Promethius
or Nymphoworld :D (they all have such potential :D )

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Terra 10?Tenth Earth?We already have one terra and I'm not sure where the other 8 are?
It's the one reason I didn't suggest Gaia as there is already a Gaia.

I think we should stick to a classical theme of gods and legendary creatures. ;)

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what about SISYPHUS the greek equivelent of the norse god LOKI (the mask)

after the guy who put the grit on the lens :D

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Why do they name planets after products anyway?

Mercury - Music Awards
Venus - Womens shaving stuff
Mars - Chocolate bar
Jupiter - Insurance company
Saturn - Failed games console
Uranus - Named to start awful jokes
Pluto - After a dog

so the 10th planet should be named after a website! The Cable Forum Planet?

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and all inside our GALAXY the MILKY WAY :D

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Exactly space is far too commercial :D

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Or call it Nemesis after some one we know and love ;)

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Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha :D

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So ... many ... jokes ... about ... Ilikemenesis ... being ... the ... size ... of ... a ... planet ... must ... resist ...

:disturbd:

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Maybe if you kicked him in the diodes he'd have a pain down his left side :D :D

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Errr..I think you got that a*se about face there. ;)

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How about Juno, Minerva or Ceres?

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Hades :)

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Juno has been taken..

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/Aster...orplanets.html

I like Hades as a choice especially as it is so far out from the sun. :tu:
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Another link that might be helpful so as not to duplicate names already in use.

http://ephemeral.info/qot/bach.shtml

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It certainly is great news and it will be interesting as they find out more andmore about this great new planet. The universe interests me greatly and such a discovery is fantastic news.

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Call it Caspar ;) :tu:

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Thank you https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/08/35.gif

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Works for me :)

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Unimatrix 1?

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Well all I can say looking at what we have come up with, that it's just as well it's not up to us... :D

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Oooh oooh - how about Galactus?





Alright, yes I did watch the Fantastic 4 cartoon this morning :disturbd:

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Possibly because it, and also Pluto, should be considered as Kuiper Belt Objects rather than true planets; definitely B list astronomical bodies.

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From what I've read, that is a minority opinion amongst astronomers. Sedna (if indeed that is what it's eventually called) was announced a couple of years ago but they waited until all the arguing was over before confirming it as a planet. It is a planet, as is Pluto (which is a smaller body).

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As long as I don't become a persecuted minority. (Not that I'm an astronomer.) :)

As you say, it's larger than Pluto. As astrology seems to pay no attention to the distance of a planet from Earth, I await with interest to see how they intend to handle this one. They seem to have managed to incorporate Pluto into astrology without any problem.

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Funny that. Or perhaps the fact that no-one has been taking account of Sedna up until now is the reason why horoscopes are useless? :D

I think I read somewhere that some crazy American woman is trying to sue Nasa for crashing a probe into a comet, fractionally altering its trajectory and thereby mucking up her horoscope ... :spin:

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I've just googled on +sedna +astrology and got 10,000 hits!