What's the name of that planet they discovered out past Pluto ?
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Sedna???That's what I hear here...
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Planet is a difficult word to use to describe objects in the outer solar system.  They are typically called trans-Neptunian objects, Kuiper Belt objects, or inner Oort cloud objects since they are very much unlike the four inner and four Jovian planets.  \n\nHowever that said an object by the name of Xena was found recently.  Based upon its distance and reflected light astronomers believe it is larger than Pluto.  Its orbit puts it near the same distance as Pluto's orbit...slightly further.  Also Sedna was discovered also recently.  Called an inner Oort cloud member it is slighly smaller than Pluto and it appears to have peculiar properties like being overly red in color.\n\nAnd of course there are roughly 150 extra-solar planets discovered around other stars.
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An object larger than pluto has been discovered but it will be up to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to give it official planet status and to name it.
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This directory should give you the north polar CC for all the planets out to Pluto; the southern ones should be easy to extrapolate from these figures.\n\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nthis same thing happened has happened before. in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting the sun between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet. astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit
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Pluto (planet), ninth planet from the Sun and outermost known member of the solar system. Pluto was discovered as the result of a telescopic search inaugurated in 1905 by the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who conjectured the existence of a distant planet beyond Neptune as the cause of slight perturbations (see Orbit) in the motions of Uranus. Continued by members of the Lowell Observatory staff, the search ended successfully in 1930, when the American astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh found Pluto near the position Lowell had predicted. The new planet’s mass, however, seemed insufficient to account for the perturbations of Neptune, and the search for a possible tenth planet continues.\n\nPluto revolves about the Sun once in 247.7 years at an average distance of 5.9 billion km (3.67 billion mi). The orbit is so eccentric that at certain points along its path Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. No possibility of collision exists, however, because Pluto’s orbit is inclined by more than 17.2° to the plane of the ecliptic and never actually crosses Neptune’s path.\n\nVisible only through large telescopes, Pluto is seen to have a yellowish colour. For many years very little was known about the planet, but in 1978 astronomers discovered a relatively large moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of only about 19,000 km (12,000 mi) and named it Charon. The orbits of Pluto and Charon caused them to pass repeatedly in front of one another from 1985 to 1990, enabling astronomers to determine their sizes fairly accurately. Pluto is 2,284 km (1,420 mi) in diameter, and Charon is 1,192 km (740 mi) in diameter, making them even more like a double-planet system than are the Earth and its moon. Pluto was also found to have a thin atmosphere, probably of methane, exerting a pressure on the planet’s surface that is about 100,000 times weaker than the Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The atmosphere appears to condense and form polar caps during Pluto’s long winter. The first map of Pluto’s surface was made by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows vague light and dark regions of unknown origin.\n\nWith a density about twice that of water, Pluto is apparently made of much rockier material than are the other planets of the outer solar system. This may be the result of the kind of cold-temperature/low-pressure chemical combinations that took place during the formation of the planet. Some astronomers have suggested that Pluto may be a former satellite of Neptune, knocked into a separate orbit during the early days of the solar system. Charon would then be an accumulation of the lighter materials resulting from the collision.
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its probably half way to pluto by now. you could write the plutonians and ask them to email it back to you, this may take a few days though.
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http://www.iau.org\nhttp://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nthis same thing happened has happened before.  in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet.  astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit
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Yes it's supposed to be beyond Pluto. It's said that for the different levels of the Great Pyramid of Giza that there is a planet that corresponds according to some old astronomical chart from around c.3000 b.c. and that there is still one level that has a planet that is still unaccounted for.
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Pluto - 1930.\n\nPluto is still considered a planet and all the objects that Mike Brown et.al. have been finding (Sedna, 2003UB313, etc.) have not been granted planetary status, no matter how often Mike Brown says that 2003UB313 is a planet, quite simply it is not.\n\nThe IAU's Division of Planetary Science is currently working on the whole planet issue, and we are supposed to have some sort of resolution to this issue by august of this year.  Right now it seems that we are leaning to either strip Pluto of its planetary status, through making an actually definition of the word "planet," or to make Pluto the arbitrary cut-off line.  This would mean that 2003UB313 would become the 10th planet, but Sedna (being smaller than Pluto) would not.\n\nAs of right now there is no official motion in place to remove planetary status from pluto, although it may loose it through the adoption of a new definition of what a planet is.\n\nAlso, no matter how catchy the name sounds, or how often the BBC calls it that, the official name of 2003UB313 will not be "Xena," that was simply Brown's code name for that object.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nthis same thing happened has happened before.  in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet.  astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit
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Pluto was discovered by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona on February 18, 1930. \n\nIn the matter of Pluto the discretion of naming the new object belonged to Lowell Observatory and its director, Vesto Melvin Slipher, who, in the words of Tombaugh, was "urged to suggest a name for the new planet before someone else did". \n\nThe name retained for the planet is that of the Roman god Pluto, and it is also intended to evoke the initials of the astronomer Percival Lowell, who predicted that a planet would be found beyond Neptune. The name was first suggested by Venetia Burney, at the time an eleven-year-old girl from Oxford, England. Over the breakfast table, one morning her grandfather, who worked at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, was reading about the discovery of the new planet in the Times newspaper. He asked his granddaughter what she thought would be good name for it. Venetia thought that as it was so cold and so distant it should be named after the Roman God of the underworld. Professor Herbert Hall Turner cabled his colleagues in America with this suggestion, and after favourable consideration which was almost unanimous, the name Pluto was officially adopted and an announcement made by Slipher on May 1, 1930.
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astronomers are trying to define the word planet but it isn't easy. many astronomers favor the reclassification of the bodies in the solar system into three groups, the rocky terrestrials, the gas giants, and the ice dwarfs. there are hundreds of bodies that orbit the sun farther than neptune known. these include bodies like pluto, quaoar, sedna, 2003 EL61, and 2003 UB313 (the official name of xena). this is also called the kuiper belt. pluto was the first kuiper belt object discovered, and 2003 UB313 is about five percent bigger than pluto.\n\n\nread this:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
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Well... Pluto isn't exactly a planet... some people speculate it is... others don't. Yes, another one has been discovered a while ago... I think it was Planet Nebula or something... in the far away galaxy of Cygnus (the constellation that resembles a goose)... You are talking about our solar system... right? I thought as much. In our solar system... there'd be 8 or 9, depending if you call Pluto a planet or not.\n\nEDIT: OK... there was one mass that could be considered a planet found in our solar system. It was called Ceres or something... found between Mars and Jupiter. Pluto may be an asteroid!
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2003 UB-313 (tentatively named "Xena") was discovered, or more specifically, confirmed, back in 8-January 2005 and was the first TNO (Trans-Neptunian Object) discovered that was larger than Pluto.  There has been ongoing debate about whether to classify it as a planet or not.  Reciprocally, there is a counter-push claiming that if 2003 UB-313 were to not be classified as a planet, then Pluto should also be removed from the IAU's "official list".\n\nAs of today, though, Pluto is still a planet, and Xena is not.\n\nNeither are 90377 Sedna and 90482 Orcus, two more candidate planetoids.  Though these two are both smaller than Pluto and Xena, they are still of roughly spherical shape and similar composition.
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PLUTO HAS NOT GONE ANYWHERE. IT IS STILL REVOLVING BUT THE SCIENTIST HAVE PROVED THAT PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET BECAUSE PLUTO IS THE OBJECT IN KUPIER BELT. THE NEW PLANETS ARE CERES, XENA & CHARON . FIRST WE SAY THE NAME OF PLANET LIKE THIS mY VERY EDUCATED MOTHER JUST SHOW US THE NINE PLANET.  NOW, THIS HAS BEEN PROVED WRONG. THE KNEW SYSTEM IS GIVEN BELOW. THIS INCLUDE 11 PLANET.\n\nMERCURY\nVENUS\nEARTH\nMARS\nCERES\nJUPITER\nSATURN\nURANUS\nNEPTUNE\nXENA\nCHARON
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Pluto is not a planet anymore... it is now a "dwarf planet."\n\nWhen it is outside Neptune's Orbit, it is 8 planets away from the Sun and when it is inside Neptune's Orbit, it is 7 planets away from the Sun.  \n\nPluto has a very eccentric orbit and spends 20 year chunks of time closer to the Sun than Neptune.\n\nAloha