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1. This is the fifth time we've discovered Planet Nine
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 03:55 PM
Oct 2016
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_planet_(disambiguation)

Ninth planet, Planet Nine or Planet 9 is a term applied to many planets beyond Neptune . The term may also refer to:

Planets

Pluto, considered to be the ninth planet from its discovery in 1930 until its reclassification as a dwarf planet in 2006

Neptune, the ninth-closest planet from the Sun from 1979 to 1999 (with Pluto then considered the eighth-closest planet from the Sun)

2 Pallas, asteroid considered to be the ninth planet in chronological discovery order from 1802 until its reclassification as a minor planet in the 1850s

Jupiter, considered the ninth-closest planet from the Sun from 1807 to 1845 as a result of the discovery of minor planets

Planet Nine, a hypothetical large ninth planet in the Solar System first proposed in 2014

This is the fifth time we've discovered Planet Nine bananas Oct 2016 #1
Call it something else, Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #2
How about Planet 9.02? JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2016 #4
No, giving Pluto some sort of special status just because that's what people learned in school Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #10
This issue left science behind and devolved into a dick measuring contest a long time ago Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #12
Well, that's the whole point. If Pluto is categorized as a "planet", we have thousands of planets Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #13
We don't know there are thousands of objects like Pluto Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #15
No, Eris is NOT a "cluster of pixels" Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #16
Well if you have better observations than Hubble's please share them with everyone Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #17
Im sure Mike Brown would be able to explain in detail why our knowledge of Eris's mass etc Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #18
Huh? Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #19
Until pretty recently, Pluto was "just a few barely observed pixels", too Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #20
I'm not discarding anything, I want to know more. Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #21
it is true that until 2006, "Planet" had no commonly accepted definition. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #22
If he finds the long hypothesized Planet X I don't doubt that is true. Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #23
Eris is at least as significant a discovery as Pluto. Warren DeMontague Nov 2016 #27
The only person who was talking down the discovery of Eris was Mike Brown himself Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #29
Let me know when we've reached the 8th dimension. TeamPooka Oct 2016 #3
I went to a party last night PJMcK Oct 2016 #6
Buckaroo Banzai knows TeamPooka Oct 2016 #7
Some string theorists are up to 26 dimensions now! Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2016 #14
When are we going? Orrex Oct 2016 #5
What's that watermelon doing there? TeamPooka Oct 2016 #8
The most important thing... Orrex Oct 2016 #9
Planet 9 from Outer Space pinboy3niner Oct 2016 #11
Planet X is Planet 10, Planet IX is Planet 9 bananas Nov 2016 #25
Planet X is Planet X Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #31
I know! Let's send our greatest Astronaut there to explore: Donald Trump! lindysalsagal Nov 2016 #26
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