NASA announcement....planet-like body inside our solar system!!!, page 1

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A little help... Maybe a link, or a named source?

Thanks.

My 10,000th post... w00t!





[edit on 15/5/2008 by Mirthful Me]

Maybe these will help:

Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered

NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.

Astronomers Find A Second Pluto

reply to post by Mirthful Me

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Right on Monkey!!! That would be over 10,000 poo's served!! Congrats!

Maybe OP meens this

www.nasa.gov...

which is not a planet like body at all.

Originally posted by Rapacity
Maybe these will help:

Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered

NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.

Astronomers Find A Second Pluto

Rapacity --

The link you provided about the "second Pluto" is an article about Sedna -- a body discovered in 2002 and is almost the size of Pluto. The same team that discovered Sedna also announed the discovery of "Eris" in 2005.

When Eris was discovered, some thought it should be the "10th Planet" because it is actually larger than Pluto and even has its own moon. However, instead it triggered the debate as to what should be called a planet. Eris was indirectly resposible for the re-catagorization of Pluto as a "Dwarf Planet" in 2006. Eris, along with Sedna, also fell under the Dwarf Planet catagory.

The fact that there is another planet-like body in our solar system isn't really surprising. We have 8 known Planets and many more Dwarf Planets. Scientists are fairly certain that bodies larger than Eris and Pluto still exist out there, but remain undiscovered. Japanese scientists announced last month that they have proved the existence (through calculations) of another large body in our solar system, but have not yet found it.

I'm sure that in time, scientists will discover dozens, if not hundreds, of large (maybe planet-sized??) rocky bodies out past the orbit of Neptune (called trans-Neptunian objects) in the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt.

Here's info on Eris and Sedna:
Eris Wikipedia
Sedna Wikipedia


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