2003UB313 10th Planet in the Solar System
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From: Portland, OR
Originally Posted by HAN Frodo
Both Pluto and this thing aren't really planets. They're cast off ice balls from the Kuiper Belt. Thats why they don't fit the pattern that other planets follow.
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Originally Posted by MarshyTheKid
The new planet is on a 35% axis or something. The other planets are not. They weren't looking in the right place. They didn't discover Pluto until like 1920 or something. Its easy to miss things like that. The only reason they did find it was because they took a picture of something else and noticed the planet in the picture.
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From: PA
Originally Posted by RB
So is this why pluto is sometimes the farthest "planet" (until now) and sometimes Uranus is?
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What's the significance of February 11, 1999 for Pluto?
On February 11, Pluto will move farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet in the solar system. JPL astronomers calculate that it will take place at 2:08 am Pacific Time. Pluto will maintain its title of "most distant planet" for the next 228 years. Neptune has been the farthest planet for the past 20 years (since February 7, 1979).
Why is Pluto sometimes the farthest planet from the Sun, and other times the second-farthest planet from the Sun?
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit, completing its journey around the Sun every 248 years. Thus, Pluto's distance from the Sun varies. Most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but for a short time during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptun
On February 11, Pluto will move farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet in the solar system. JPL astronomers calculate that it will take place at 2:08 am Pacific Time. Pluto will maintain its title of "most distant planet" for the next 228 years. Neptune has been the farthest planet for the past 20 years (since February 7, 1979).
Why is Pluto sometimes the farthest planet from the Sun, and other times the second-farthest planet from the Sun?
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit, completing its journey around the Sun every 248 years. Thus, Pluto's distance from the Sun varies. Most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but for a short time during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptun
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From: PA
Originally Posted by flipped cracka
What's the significance of February 11, 1999 for Pluto?
On February 11, Pluto will move farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet in the solar system. JPL astronomers calculate that it will take place at 2:08 am Pacific Time. Pluto will maintain its title of "most distant planet" for the next 228 years. Neptune has been the farthest planet for the past 20 years (since February 7, 1979).
Why is Pluto sometimes the farthest planet from the Sun, and other times the second-farthest planet from the Sun?
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit, completing its journey around the Sun every 248 years. Thus, Pluto's distance from the Sun varies. Most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but for a short time during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptun
On February 11, Pluto will move farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet in the solar system. JPL astronomers calculate that it will take place at 2:08 am Pacific Time. Pluto will maintain its title of "most distant planet" for the next 228 years. Neptune has been the farthest planet for the past 20 years (since February 7, 1979).
Why is Pluto sometimes the farthest planet from the Sun, and other times the second-farthest planet from the Sun?
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit, completing its journey around the Sun every 248 years. Thus, Pluto's distance from the Sun varies. Most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but for a short time during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptun
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Originally Posted by flipped cracka
Most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but for a short time during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptun
Xena the sneaky little biotch has made your theorum obsolete. She's way out there most of the time.
Now, back to the matter of a fairly large chunk of space crap going undetected. Doesn't this make anyone wonder if a movie like Armageddon could happen? Apparently we have a hard time detecting stuff in our own solar system.
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From: PA
Originally Posted by fjm1
Xena the sneaky little biotch has made your theorum obsolete. She's way out there most of the time.
Now, back to the matter of a fairly large chunk of space crap going undetected. Doesn't this make anyone wonder if a movie like Armageddon could happen? Apparently we have a hard time detecting stuff in our own solar system.
Now, back to the matter of a fairly large chunk of space crap going undetected. Doesn't this make anyone wonder if a movie like Armageddon could happen? Apparently we have a hard time detecting stuff in our own solar system.
But when it comes to asteroids, there is the possibility one could hit us and we never saw it coming, depending on where it is coming from. Well, we'd see it, but not long before it smacked into our planet. There have been a few cases where an asteroid has whizzed by us and we never knew it was there until too late.
