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

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

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]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

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

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by dlavery

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

-dave

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