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Solar system '10th planet' is bigger than Pluto
http://news.telegraph.co.uk
Posted on 2/2/2006, 9:43:14 PM by Grendel9
Claims that the Solar System has a 10th planet are bolstered by the announcement today that an icy body at its fringes is bigger than Pluto. *** "Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto," said Prof Bertoldi, "it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status."
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronomy; crevolist; pluto; xplanets
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Sorry if this was posted before. I find it fascinating.
To: Grendel9
By the same standards, would not Teddy Kennedy qualify for planet status?
To: Grendel9
And all this time, we couldn't see it until now? It must be waaaaaay out there.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:45:40 PM
by
Clock King
("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
To: Grendel9
But is it bigger than Uranus?
To: Grendel9
UB313?
I hope they can come up with something better than that.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:46:43 PM
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: dfwgator
Are there any rings around it?........
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:46:45 PM
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: Grendel9
"Solar system '10th planet' is bigger than Pluto ...'
Pluto's cartoon, cartoons anger Islam, Islam in Portuguese is Plutoreta....you know you might just be onto something here....
kind regards,
(a philistine)
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:47:02 PM
by
vimto
(Life isn't a dry run)
To: HEY4QDEMS
UB313? I hope they can come up with something better than that.UB40, the reggae planet.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:47:22 PM
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
UB313? I hope they can come up with something better than that.What about UB40?
To: southernnorthcarolina
"would not Teddy Kennedy qualify for planet status?"
He might, but first you need to get him into an orbit around something [besides a bottle].
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:47:54 PM
by
GSlob
To: Clock King
It must be waaaaaay out there.There, too, Senator Kennedy would seem to qualify.
To: Grendel9
WTF?
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:48:50 PM
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: southernnorthcarolina
he has the volume, but doesn't have enough mass to create gravity. He's a gas cloud. Notice when more gas is produced, it repells all things around him?...He
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:49:46 PM
by
Zavien Doombringer
(13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
To: southernnorthcarolina
he has the volume, but doesn't have enough mass to create gravity. He's a gas cloud. Notice when more gas is produced, it repells all things around him?...He
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:49:51 PM
by
Zavien Doombringer
(13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
To: HEY4QDEMS
I hope they can come up with something better than that.How about "Hillary's Heart"?
To: southernnorthcarolina
I don't know about the swimmer, but I'm sure ol' Kerry's punkin would qualify. Rumor has it that Lurch's head has it's own area code.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:50:56 PM
by
Lekker 1
("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
To: Grendel9
yeah it was along with the same bad jokes :)
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:51:56 PM
by
steveo
(No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man, I spell my name steveo...)
To: Grendel9
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:52:03 PM
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: American Quilter
How about "Hillary's Heart"? If she had one.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:52:27 PM
by
Godzilla
(Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.)
To: American Quilter
It's a planet, not a black hole.
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posted on
2/2/2006, 9:53:03 PM
by
Squawk 8888
(We Acadiens have nothing to do with Québec)
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