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Large New World Discovered Beyond Neptune
space.com ^
| 07-29-05
| WestVirginiaRebel
Posted on 7/29/2005, 8:42:31 PM by WestVirginiaRebel
A newfound object in our solar system's outskirts may be larger than any known world after Pluto, scientists said today.
It also has a moon.
Designated as 2003 EL61, the main object in the two-body system is 32 percent as massive as Pluto and is estimated to be about 70 percent of Pluto's diameter.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: astronomy; xplanets
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"I claim this planet in the name of the Earth!"
To: WestVirginiaRebel
LOL! Duck Dodgers from the 24th and a half Century!
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:43:14 PM
by
saveliberty
(Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Let's name it for Ronald Reagan.
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:44:13 PM
by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Of course anything not quite as big as Pluto amounts to:
a) an abuse of the word "large" in the context of planets
b) a hill of beans
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:45:35 PM
by
konaice
To: WestVirginiaRebel
So... there are ELEVEN planets?
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Someone is going to say this so let me be the first...
Is it bigger than Uranus?
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:50:41 PM
by
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: konaice
Exactly. Even Pluto is so small that they are considering revoking its membership in the planet society.
To: WestVirginiaRebel
And it might as well be also said...
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:51:49 PM
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: RandallFlagg
That looks like a Death Star far, far away.
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Sounds like a fine place for a Palistinian homeland...
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:54:34 PM
by
AngryJawa
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:55:19 PM
by
Michael Goldsberry
(an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Yet another large celestial body beyond Pluto. There may be a lot of them out there, possibly reaching all the way to the next star.
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:56:41 PM
by
RightWhale
(Substance is essentially the relationship of accidents to itself)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
This big:
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:57:51 PM
by
RockinRight
(Democrats - Trying to make an a$$ out of America since 1933)
To: pabianice
I count nine. This would be ten, yes?
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:58:06 PM
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: AngryJawa; All
"
Sounds like a fine place for a Palistinian homeland..."
Actually, I was thinking the surface of Mercury myself due to its close resemblance to the abode of their TRUE god.
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:59:52 PM
by
EUPHORIC
(Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Zecharia Sitchin's 12th planet...?
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posted on
7/29/2005, 8:59:52 PM
by
mmercier
(all God's creatures)
To: Buck W.
Let's name it for Ronald Reagan.I rather prefer naming it after Karl Rove.
Think of all the Rovian treasures we will find on it. We could speak of a 'Rovian atmosphere', and discuss the wonders of the Rove.
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posted on
7/29/2005, 9:00:02 PM
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
I memorized the planets in grade school with the saying "My Very Extravagent Mother Just Spent Uncle Ned's Pay." If Pluto is bounced from the fraternity, or this new find is initiated into it, they'll need to come up with another formula for remembering planet order.
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posted on
7/29/2005, 9:00:14 PM
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
This was reported a couple years ago.
To: RandallFlagg
I've got a bad feeling about this....
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posted on
7/29/2005, 9:01:31 PM
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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