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Pluto is dead...
I've just read the news on Google and stumbled over an article about the results of the debate of the IAU in Prague. They've decided to split Planets into two categories now - we now have "planets" and "dwarf planets". Pluto lost his status as planet and the number of planets in our star star system is now reduced to eight.
The three new candidates - Xeres, Xena and Charon - had no chance of getting an planet-like status.
Here's an article from Associated Press on Mercury News
Maybe some of you guys might be interested...
The three new candidates - Xeres, Xena and Charon - had no chance of getting an planet-like status.
Here's an article from Associated Press on Mercury News
Maybe some of you guys might be interested...
Be lenient with my english skills... still using a dictonary. http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
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Re: Pluto is dead...
Yes, that was quite a thriller. Despite that this is just arguing about a definition it quite raised the public's awareness of how crowded the solar system is. And we didn't start talking about NEOS (near earth objetcs) yet. If you think that that there are just a few other objects out there look at this: http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/rockstar wrote:I've just read the news on Google and stumbled over an article about the results of the debate of the IAU in Prague. They've decided to split Planets into two categories now - we now have "planets" and "dwarf planets". Pluto lost his status as planet and the number of planets in our star star system is now reduced to eight.
Actually, they had a chance to become a planet, because the first proposal of a planet definition would had included them as planets. Now, they're already having the "dwarf planet" status. Their names aren't right though. The dwarf planet orbiting sun between Mars and Jupiter is called Ceres not Xeres. What you call Xena hasn't been officially named yet. Currently it is officially called 2003 UB313 but inofficially refered to as "Xena" or "Lila".rockstar wrote:The three new candidates - Xeres, Xena and Charon - had no chance of getting an planet-like status.
Why reading newspapers? Here is the official announcement from the IAU: http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.o ... index.html
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Next they'd be classifying all planetoids as teeny tiny dwarf planets. Then gas giants as very dark brown (lol) dwarves. Then classify all asteroid bodies orbitting palnets as moons (of course they are, at least.. satellites.. ), then finally Earth will be classified as nothing more than Starbirth slag.
Oh yeah... the Moon will be classified as a Giant Satellite, as opposed to Dwarf Satellites, like the pebbles on Saturn's rings, lol.
Oh yeah... the Moon will be classified as a Giant Satellite, as opposed to Dwarf Satellites, like the pebbles on Saturn's rings, lol.
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My apologies for the spelling mistake... it was quite late yesterday and I just thought it might be interesting to post it here. Well, and the news link ain't that informative... I read the news on Google.de and just switched over to Google.com to find something in english.
The public's awareness is a result of that until yesterday it was one of the well known and untouched facts of science that we had nine planets in our lovely little star system and Pluto was one of them - at least that's what I guess. We all learned that quite early in school, didn't we?! It's a major change in general knowledge, although it's indeed absolutly unimportant for everyday's life.
The public's awareness is a result of that until yesterday it was one of the well known and untouched facts of science that we had nine planets in our lovely little star system and Pluto was one of them - at least that's what I guess. We all learned that quite early in school, didn't we?! It's a major change in general knowledge, although it's indeed absolutly unimportant for everyday's life.
Be lenient with my english skills... still using a dictonary. http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
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new system needed
maybe we need a brand new way of looking at the universe. like for earthquakes etc,
so like a size 1 would be atomic or simple molecule size and up,
the term planet would apply to certian set of orbit possibilities,
I was waiting to hear pluto was going to be called a moon for a while
so like a size 1 would be atomic or simple molecule size and up,
the term planet would apply to certian set of orbit possibilities,
I was waiting to hear pluto was going to be called a moon for a while
if current_situation=fact and if current_situation=faith
then current_forcast = excitement
then current_forcast = excitement
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I seem to recall Charon being almost as big as Pluto, leading to the shared orbital point being oddly placed - will check on that.
Edit: Ok, so it's not almost as big - but the ratio is noteworthy (earth-moon numbers provided for comparison).
Charon — Diameter: 1172 KM
Pluto — Diameter: 2274 KM
Moon — Diameter: 3476 KM
Earth — Diameter: 12,756.3 KM
(Phobos and Deimos are both <25KM in diameter)
Edit: Ok, so it's not almost as big - but the ratio is noteworthy (earth-moon numbers provided for comparison).
Charon — Diameter: 1172 KM
Pluto — Diameter: 2274 KM
Moon — Diameter: 3476 KM
Earth — Diameter: 12,756.3 KM
(Phobos and Deimos are both <25KM in diameter)
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Officially, it's now a double dwarf planet together with Pluto. (A dwarf planet is not a planet, just smaller. It is a distinct class of objects.)klauss wrote:What about Charon?
Is it a planet or not, in the end?
From the FAQ:
Q:Why is Pluto-Charon a “double [dwarf] planet” and not a “[dwarf] planet with a satellite”?
A: Both Pluto and Charon each are large enough (massive enough) to be spherical. Both bodies independently satisfy the definition of “[dwarf] planet”. The reason they are called a “double [dwarf] planet” is that their common centre of gravity is a point that is located in free space outside the surface of Pluto. Because both conditions are met: each body is “[dwarf] planet-like” and each body orbits around a point in free space that is not inside one of them, the system qualifies to be called a “double [dwarf] planet.”
(added the dwarf everywhere by hand as this was an old version)
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it's interesting to not that the moon was always female.
Artemis, Diana, Selene, Luna, our won culture has myths of HER, we call her Bulan or Buwan. An especially poetic way of describing midnight in our dialect is "Udto sa Bulan" in english "Noon of the Moon".
The moon is actually quite small compared to Ganymede and Titan...
Artemis, Diana, Selene, Luna, our won culture has myths of HER, we call her Bulan or Buwan. An especially poetic way of describing midnight in our dialect is "Udto sa Bulan" in english "Noon of the Moon".
The moon is actually quite small compared to Ganymede and Titan...
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How about being ex-Axis?
Hobbits too probably.
Well, as I remember, to the elves , at least eldar of the western isles, the sun was male. Referred to as "aran". Hobbits share same language characteristics as the elves right? how come?
Well, I'm orucai anyway.
Hobbits too probably.
Well, as I remember, to the elves , at least eldar of the western isles, the sun was male. Referred to as "aran". Hobbits share same language characteristics as the elves right? how come?
Well, I'm orucai anyway.
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