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1 posted on 03/16/2004 6:57:50 PM PST by vannrox
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Controversial Proposal Would Boost Solar System's Planet Tally to 12


2 posted on 03/16/2004 7:00:33 PM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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I had never heard of Quaoar! LOL!

Who knew that Pluto wasn't a planet!
3 posted on 03/16/2004 7:00:48 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with high powered explosives.)
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Since it is so far removed from the Earth, it is tentatively named "Kerry's Planet".
4 posted on 03/16/2004 7:00:54 PM PST by Ramius
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This is OLD news. Like at least a few days ago :D
5 posted on 03/16/2004 7:01:10 PM PST by AM2000
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7 posted on 03/16/2004 7:03:53 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Always finish what you st)
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Very, very cool.
8 posted on 03/16/2004 7:09:06 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan (Michigan ROCKS! A petoskey stone is a good example)
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Finally, a place to dump all those AOL "99 hours free!" CD's. I already have more coasters than I have glasses.


10 posted on 03/16/2004 7:09:41 PM PST by Nick Danger (Give me immortality, or give me death.)
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Huge Mini-World in Outer Solar System

Is that like a planetary version of "Jumbo Shrimp"?

11 posted on 03/16/2004 7:10:05 PM PST by Brett66
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It is redder and brighter than anything astronomers have seen in the outer solar system, and scientists don't know why

It is a very elliptical orbit

There's absolutely nothing else like it known in the solar system

NIBIRU!

12 posted on 03/16/2004 7:13:34 PM PST by Nexus
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I think they should change the name to Sedona, new age goddess of Arizona.
16 posted on 03/16/2004 7:27:22 PM PST by steve86
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Scientists Find Another PLANET in our solar system!

Scientists Find Another Huge Mini-World in Outer Solar System

Posting protocol requires that you do no make up your own headlines. Especially when you make an erroneous one. Did you read the article? It specifically says that it is NOT considered a planet.

17 posted on 03/16/2004 7:31:32 PM PST by cinFLA
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It's political correctness gone amok, I tell you!
First, they want to call something massively-challanged a planet rather than a fuzzy ball of ice-dust, and then on top of that, they throw out the convention of using ROMAN gods and goddesses and name it after an Intuit!!

Go figger.

TS

21 posted on 03/16/2004 7:58:15 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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RED LECTRIODS FROM PLANET TEN!!

22 posted on 03/16/2004 8:01:16 PM PST by Liberal Classic (Will admin systems for food.)
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24 posted on 03/16/2004 8:26:52 PM PST by Nexus
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It is redder and brighter than anything astronomers have seen in the outer solar system, and scientists don't know why.

Nemesis.

28 posted on 03/17/2004 8:42:17 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Ooooooo.....I think I over-medicated,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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just a bump in a Blast from the Past, with a related link:

Giant Kuiper Belt planetoid Sedna may have formed far beyond Pluto
Physics Org (http://www.physorg.com/) | January 24, 2005 | Southwest Research Institute
Posted on 10/22/2005 1:05:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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35 posted on 12/28/2005 12:14:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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Quaoar? I have a hrad time picturing Mickey calling for his pal, Quaoar...


36 posted on 12/28/2005 12:24:30 PM PST by Hatteras
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from March 2004.

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43 posted on 01/11/2007 11:29:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("I've learned to live with not knowing." -- Richard Feynman https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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