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Mysterious 'Planet Nine' gets more evidence from weird space rock
Fox News ^ | May 21, 2018 | Elizabeth Howell, Space.com

Posted on 05/21/2018 2:30:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Planet Nine = Nibiru


21 posted on 05/21/2018 2:57:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pluto has enough mass to have formed a sphere, it travels in a regular, predictable elliptical orbit around the sun, has five moons, an atmosphere of carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrogen but isn't a planet.

Something we can't see, which doesn't seem to reflect any light, is a planet.

22 posted on 05/21/2018 3:04:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Magnum44

My mnemonic that was taught to me was

Man
Very
Early
Made
Jars
Stand
Up
Nearly
Perpendicular


23 posted on 05/21/2018 3:04:25 PM PDT by xp38
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To: edh

We have way more than 9 planets now.

We have a new category... dwarf planets and Pluto is the lead planet.

“Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered.”

Then there are:

Ceres

Makemake

Haumea

Eris

“The term dwarf planet was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way categorization of bodies orbiting the Sun,[1] brought about by an increase in discoveries of objects farther away from the Sun than Neptune that rivaled Pluto in size, and finally precipitated by the discovery of an even more massive object, Eris.[2] The exclusion of dwarf planets from the roster of planets by the IAU has been both praised and criticized; it was said to be the “right decision” by astronomer Mike Brown,[3][4][5] who discovered Eris and other new dwarf planets, but has been rejected by Alan Stern,[6][7] who had coined the term dwarf planet in April 1991.[8]”


24 posted on 05/21/2018 3:06:41 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: xp38

The one I learned is probably not politically correct:

Mary’s Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights Permanently.


25 posted on 05/21/2018 3:10:45 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Little worlds in the solar system being perturbed”

Those little worlds always got a chip on their shoulders.


26 posted on 05/21/2018 3:21:59 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ed Wood made a movie called Planet Nine From Outer Space. Wait. That was PLAN Nine. Not Planet Nine.


27 posted on 05/21/2018 3:24:37 PM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go straight to the comments.)
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To: antidisestablishment

“The one I learned is probably not politically correct:”

The one I learned is probably why I failed astronomy :

Sum
Ting
Wong
We
Tu
Lo
Ho
Lee
Fuk
Bang
Ding
Ow


28 posted on 05/21/2018 3:41:00 PM PDT by edh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
astrophysicists who specialize in studying small worlds

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small small world...

29 posted on 05/21/2018 4:00:51 PM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

30 posted on 05/21/2018 4:22:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Magnum44

From my high school days:
Miss
Vasquez
Eats
Many
Jelly
Sandwiches
Under
Nancy’s
Porch


31 posted on 05/21/2018 4:24:45 PM PDT by Oatka (tHE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time to petition to have it named Planet Trump. It’s big!Its incredible! And it’s out there making our solar system great again.....after the libs screwed over Pluto!


32 posted on 05/21/2018 4:26:59 PM PDT by Bommer ( F the NFL!)
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Time to petition to have it named Planet Trump. It’s big!Its incredible!

It's YUGE! I'd like to see them name it Planet Covfefe myself.

33 posted on 05/21/2018 4:28:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Yo-Yo
Everybody knows that Planet X blew up and left behind the asteroid belt.

What happened to the planet?

Blown up, sir.


34 posted on 05/21/2018 5:10:44 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nibiru.


35 posted on 05/21/2018 6:25:55 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Little planets are still planets. Free Pluto!


36 posted on 05/21/2018 6:58:06 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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https://imgur.com/a/U48gtjh

https://i.imgur.com/YsGVIdk.jpg


37 posted on 03/22/2023 12:24:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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