Comments on: Planetary decision delayed until at least August, 2006

By: whesu emmanuel mesoji

whesu emmanuel mesoji — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:23:33 +0000

Apart from the XENA planet is there any new scientific discovery of the century?

By: WHESU EMMANUEL

WHESU EMMANUEL — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:45:18 +0000

I WILL LIKE TO BE FED WITH MORE INFO ABOUT THIS TENTH PLANET AND MORE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AS WELL.
THANKS.
WHESU

By: bob

bob — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:34:25 +0000

yea i agree

By: primvs pilvs

primvs pilvs — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:48:26 +0000

I think some astronomers are trying to make things overly complicated. Make it simple, if its spherical and its not a star it’s a planet unless it orbits a planet. Size should not be relevant, a star a thousand times smaller than another is still a star.
Some think that Pluto shouldn’t be a planet because its so much smaller than Earth. If we lived on Jupiter would it be right to say that Earth is not a planet?
A lot of people have stated that it matters where the body is located. Why? A car alone in the desert is still as much a car as one in a traffic jam.
So what if we have to change the nine planets to the ten or twenty or whatever.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:53:45 +0000

It’s not just the size that counts. It’s also other factors, such as whether or not the object orbits the sun, whether or not the object is round, etc.

By: Tali

Tali — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:07:52 +0000

If an object at least the size of Pluto can be considered a planet and we do have a “10th Planet” then we have a lot more planets to be named because there are objects in the Kuiper Belt at least the size of Pluto if not larger. Will the IAU name all of them as well? And if so, how will they decide names. I personally like the pneumoic devices we have developed to memorize the planets and it would be a shame to mess with them and screw them up.