Do u believe that our solar system is made up of 11 planets not as 9?
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Right now the international convention in astronomy is debating on how a planet is defined... Pluto appears to be just one of the thousands of objects in the Kuiper belt which is believed to contain objects more massive than Pluto, 2003 ub313 is one prime example and is classified as a Trans-Neptunian object... I have already debated this topic with all the other webdatedotcom friends I have and the arguments are pretty interesting..
Wait, wasn't Pluto just discovered to be a moon, not a planet? So that puts us down to 8 last time I checked. Where did you get 11?
There has been a lot of doubt if we even have 9,as the orbit of Pluto tends to indicate that it is a Kuiper Belt object,rather than a planet.I have heard there are several of these larger than Pluto out there.
The latest I heard was that there was a possible 10th beyond Pluto, which itself is perhaps more of a planetoid than a full-size planet. I guess I'm not getting the latest on astronomy these days, if someone thinks there's an 11th. I looked up "11th planet" in Wikipedia and the closest thing I got was an old legend that considered the Sun and Earth's moon to be "planets." It would be exciting to find there were more planets, but I personally doubt it.
Well, no one will really ever ever know how many planets there are on our solar system. Even if we can prove that there are 11 planets in our solar system, we cannot prove that there are no more.
Therefore: I do not believe that our solar system is made up of 11 planets.
well, pluto is still a planet for now, and in science class, they are already teaching us at 10: mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, satturn, uranus, neptune, pluto, sedna.
but then comes the idea of the 11, i believe there might be one more past sedna, but the planet pluto is a double planet. It is 2 planets that orbit a gravitational point that is inbetween them. pluto just happens to be the bigger one, so we call it pluto. the other one is called charon.
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