A tenth Planet has been discovered!
-
i see. ehh but even if human race can survive that long...can we really live in planets like 2003UB313 or Pluto? doubt so...Originally posted by DriftingGuy:If I remembered correctly.. it increases our knowledge of Kuiper Belt Objects.. which will increase our understanding of our solar system...
Short-term wise, there wont be any benefits except for knowledge..
Long-term wise, it is a tiny step for cosmology.. which will save the human race once our sun starts to die off...
But as if human race can survive that long
-
No la... theres no way that we can live there... its too cold and don have atmosphere (just speculating).. but the discovery of 2003UB313 may help us understand our galaxy better.... then finding a planet like earth will be easier by then?Originally posted by vIn.Warrior:i see. ehh but even if human race can survive that long...can we really live in planets like 2003UB313 or Pluto? doubt so... -
is this the best name they could come up with, 2003UB313?
-
i see.Originally posted by DriftingGuy:No la... theres no way that we can live there... its too cold and don have atmosphere (just speculating).. but the discovery of 2003UB313 may help us understand our galaxy better.... then finding a planet like earth will be easier by then?
-
temporary watOriginally posted by TehJarVu:is this the best name they could come up with, 2003UB313? .. anyway they are going to name it after a greek/roman/watever god... wanna bet? -
2003 is the year they first discover the planet. 31 is the date (31 OCT). not sure bout "UB" and the last "3" though.Originally posted by TehJarVu:is this the best name they could come up with, 2003UB313? -
GEK1520??Originally posted by DriftingGuy:If I never took a recent module on astronomy i won't know or appreciate this.. so to others a tenth planet is no big deal la -
Damn it how do u noeOriginally posted by disappear:GEK1520?? -
becos i takes the module as well. v difficult for me.....fortunately, got MCQ to choose...........Originally posted by DriftingGuy:Damn it how do u noe
out of topic already.....
-
cool.. so wat kinda course is tat... everyting abt planets n outer space??Originally posted by disappear:becos i takes the module as well. v difficult for me.....fortunately, got MCQ to choose...........
out of topic already..... -
hmmm, another planet to remember in pri sci.
sianz. if the planet juz nice close enuf to earth, we cheong to tt planet lor. so easi. -
yesOriginally posted by BabyLover:cool.. so wat kinda course is tat... everyting abt planets n outer space?? -
very sianz.. io think i flunk my last term test.. got 7 mistakesOriginally posted by disappear:becos i takes the module as well. v difficult for me.....fortunately, got MCQ to choose...........
out of topic already..... 
-
This is not NEW as in news of the tenth planet.
Eversince man landed on moon, it had been speculating and known that away from our current galaxy, i believe it called the milky way, it had been believer of many great scienties and solemly known that beyond the ninth planet there are still more to come. BUT whom and how to reach IT!
The tenth planet, may or may not be a planet , even moon, star or etc, left to be seen or known untill after any of the existing drifting satelite IF ever can reach close to it for photo taking. Till date it is just a number tag like those tagging given to the death person left unclaimed.
It is still left to be SEEN untill proven true. As for now it is not more than A tag NUMBER. This so called 'Tenth Planet' will then be named after someone else names or founder!
Life beyond EARTH or the outer galaxies is left to be found and THIS is going to be a long search for many many generation to come. It may or may not be found even when our mother earth is old or death! We live and we die , right ! Planet no difference!
Life will begin again who know, in a next far far away universe from the so called BIG BANG THEORY! Well after all, we used to say, history repeat itself!
That all. -
7 mistakes wont fail.Originally posted by DriftingGuy:very sianz.. io think i flunk my last term test.. got 7 mistakes -
me mountain guy and caveman's son.
can someone give me the names of the other nine planets? -
in order from the sun:Originally posted by 798:me mountain guy and caveman's son.
can someone give me the names of the other nine planets?
mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, pluto -
wow. see some primary sch education here.
-
Yes .. but I am aiming for an A- at least.. now i wont get itOriginally posted by disappear:7 mistakes wont fail. -
Oct 2, 2005
Scientists discover moon orbiting '10th planet'
LOS ANGELES - The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have made another intriguing announcement: it has a moon.
This artist's concept, released by Nasa, shows the so called 10th planet at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. -- AP
While observing the new, so-called planet from Hawaii last month, a team of astronomers led by Mr Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology spotted a faint object trailing next to it. Because it was moving, astronomers ruled it was a moon and not a background star, which is stationary.
The moon discovery is important because it can help scientists determine the new planet's mass. In July, Mr Brown announced the discovery of an icy, rocky object larger than Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond Neptune. He labelled the object a planet and nicknamed it Xena after the lead character in the former TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.
By determining the moon's distance and orbit around Xena, scientists can calculate how heavy Xena is. For example, the faster a moon goes around a planet, the more massive a planet is.
The moon is about 250km wide and 60 times fainter than Xena, the farthest-known object in the solar system. It is currently 14 billion km away from the sun, or about three times Pluto's current distance from the sun.
But the newly discovered moon, nicknamed Gabrielle after Xena's faithful travelling sidekick in the TV series, likely will not quell the debate over what exactly is a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status. The problem is there is no official definition for a planet and setting standards like size-limits potentially invites other objects to take the 'planet' label.
Possessing a moon is not a criteria of planethood since Mercury and Venus are moonless planets.
Scientists believe Xena's moon was formed when Kuiper Belt objects collided with one another. The Earth's moon formed in a similar way when Earth crashed into an object the size of Mars.
Scientists expect to learn more about the moon's composition during further observations with the Hubble Space Telescope in November. -- AP