Is there a tenth planet in the solar system?
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i thought that there was a Planet X? and i wrong?
ooo look what i found!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/new_planets...
wierd!
probably, but it looks like scientists want to bump it down to 8, so...
the have found what some called the 10th planet. In fact it is smaller than even Pluto and Pluto is losing it's status as a planet. They are both Kuiper belt objects
YEST THERE IS IT WAS DICOVERED A COUPLE YEARS AGO.
Astronomy is telling us that planet #9 (Pluto) probably isn't a planet at all. a further orbiting rock has been determined to not be a planet. so, if anything, our solar system is shrinking.
There is an ongoing debate regarding that question. In 1979 Pluto was observed to have a pertubation which could not be explained - except that there was a force large enough to influence Pluto's orbit.
Circa 2005, the existance of an additional celestrial body was confirmed outside of Pluto's orbit. The arguement however, is whether or not this celestrial body (which is slightly smaller than Pluto) is a planet or Pluto's moon. There hasn't been enough data collected to determine which is which as this point.
Just recently they discoverd another planet and they named it xena.
It depends on how you define a "planet" If it is something that orbits the sun and has enough gravity to stay round there may be 12 of them or so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4737...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/us/16p...
This isn't social science.
But check this article out, from March 2004. I believe there have been more developments in this since then. I think they found something that is bigger than Pluto in the past year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...
Personally, I'd rather they demote Pluto than add more planets with the justification that, "It's about the same size as Pluto."
By the way, I heard that a similar reasoning is how Australia got to be called a continent, not just a big island. They argued that it is about the same size as Europe. That's true, but Europe itself isn't an independent continent, geologically speaking. It's part of the Asian continent. (not sure of the source for this.)
Funny you should ask because just a couple minutes ago on CNN, they were talking about how they think the solar system has 12 planets (they were counting two of pluto's moons and one other planet that I don't remember).
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