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03-15-2004, 07:05 AM
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Symbol of Cyric
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A new palnet has been discovered just past Pluto bringing the number of planets orbiting the sun to 10. It has been named Sedna.
news avaliable here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/spacedocum...169671,00.html http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/1...id=134&tid=160 |
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03-15-2004, 07:35 AM
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20th Level Warrior
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Wow, cool. Kind of like a minor evolutionary discovery or something maybe?
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03-15-2004, 07:36 AM
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Fzoul Chembryl
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There has always been a theory that a Planet X was there... somewhere behind Pluto.
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03-15-2004, 07:42 AM
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Jack Burton
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The concluding word "tenth planet" is a bit too quick. Even Pluto isn't considered a planet by a lot of people.
Nonetheless, this is very cool news [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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03-15-2004, 08:47 AM
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Symbol of Cyric
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I remember watching those documentaries about the construction of the pyramids etc. and all the theories that aliens built them and the significance of the number 9 as it is the number of planets etc. Well it's good that that theory is at least partially disproved (if as you say, we do consider it a planet), it really bothers me when shows like that would jump to those conclusions. Anyway, yeah it is deffinatly cool. While i'm on the subject of this kind of thing, i might also mention that the Earth has at least 2 moons (technically 3 but the third is too small to really be counted) it is called "Crutnie" which was reasonably recently discovered, I think it has around a 50 day orbit. I'll look for an article about it and about the smaller one too. |
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03-15-2004, 09:20 AM
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Symbol of Cyric
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These are the articles on the moons:
2nd moon - http://science.slashdot.org/article....826212&tid=160 3rd moon - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2251386.stm |
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