NASA Announces 10th Planet - It Too To Be Named JVN?

[Joe Matt]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0507/29planet/

No new name, but my bet is on JVN knowing Dave's pull... ;)

[JoeXIII'007]

I read about the possibility of its existence in a magazine more than 2 years ago, and from that point, I've just accepted the soon-to-be-fact that there are 10 planets. Now we have a good even number of planets in our solar system, and everyone can relax ;) (I don't know about everyone else, but nine just didn't seem to be the correct number of planets in the first place.)

As far as naming it JVN? Sorry, but people have been looking for planet X for a long time. So I think it'd be right to name planet #10 "X."

Oh yeah, that one astrologer who is suing NASA over blasting a crater into that one comet, I think she's been paid back. Unless the discovery knocks her readings off, she now has another planet to make her predictions with. :D

[Joe Matt]

As far as naming it JVN? Sorry, but people have been looking for planet X for a long time. So I think it'd be right to name planet #10 "X."

X also stands for 10, so it fits. Mabey they can make the planet name the Mac OSX logo! :p (it too may happen due to Dave's pull in NASA ;) )

[Madison]

I hope they continue with tradition and give it a name steeped in mythology.

[JoeXIII'007]

X also stands for 10, so it fits. Mabey they can make the planet name the Mac OSX logo! :p (it too may happen due to Dave's pull in NASA ;) )

Right on! :cool:

By the way, I knew that X meant 10. ;)

-Joe"X"III'007

[mechanicalbrain]

yes it shall be named democracy after the mythical beast that to this day is thought to roam the wilds of america never trully seen but many reports have come in over the years! (i was reading some new laws on protecting gun makers and i just felt like getting rid of some anger. no i dont want a political debate just amusing myself)

[Daniel Brim]

I thought the 10th planet (Sedna) was already discovered?

[mechanicalbrain]

oh yeah forgot about that. does it really count though?

[Alan Anderson]

I thought the 10th planet (Sedna) was already discovered?
The news here is that this newly identified distant object is larger than Pluto, so there's really no way to avoid calling it a planet (unless we also demote Puto to a "subplanetary Trans-Uranic Object").

[Greg Ross]

My son, the "Hitchhiker's" fan, reminded me that Douglas Adams already named it "Rupert".

[KenWittlief]

so what is Sedna then?

A Planette?

a planetoid?

a planet cadet?

BTW, the end of the article is interesting. They found this planet a while ago, and had not made an announcement

but internet hackers hacked their site and forced them to go public?

is this the first time hackers have done something positive?

[JoeXIII'007]

so what is Sedna then?

A Planette?

a planetoid?

a planet cadet?


It's this massively dense rock that has such a great gravitational pull that it's able to fling Kuiper belt objects the way it does. I personally wonder what its history was.

[Chase]

If it were up to me I'd give it a more entertaining name than the kind they usually give to celestial bodies. I'd have some fun with it, I'd call it something like... The Planet Formerly Known as X. :)

[mechanicalbrain]

I wonder if most of its size comes from it being in the asteroid belt (picking up dust). Please tell me if I'm wrong but isn't that the theory on how the moon was formed. Asteroid hits earth, knocks debris into space then debris forms into large celestial body. Or is this going to be technically a large asteroid like Pluto?

[dlavery]

It's this massively dense rock that has such a great gravitational pull that it's able to fling Kuiper belt objects the way it does.

"massively dense rock"... hmmm, maybe it really should be named "JVN"!!!

-dave
:rolleyes:

[Billfred]

"massively dense rock"... hmmm, maybe it really should be named "JVN"!!!

-dave
:rolleyes:

My team's forum introduced an emoticon recently, and I think it reflects my thoughts on this post quite well...

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