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New planet found in solar system |
2014-03-27 |
![]() The diminutive world, provisionally called "2012 VP 113" by the international Minor Planet Center, is estimated to be about 450km in diameter, less than half the size of a neighbouring dwarf planet named Sedna discovered a decade ago. Sedna and VP 113 are the first objects found in a region of the solar system previously believed to be devoid of planetary bodies. The proverbial no-man's land extended from the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, home to the dwarf planet Pluto and more than 1,000 other small icy bodies, to the comet-rich Oort Cloud, which orbits the sun some 10,000 times farther away than Earth. |
Posted by:Fred |
#7 Is "Dwarf" a still a politically correct term? Maybe that's offensive to Snow White or somebody.For sensitivity's sake I think it should be categorized a Bantam Planet? or a Runt Planet? or Shrimpish Planet? Lilliputian? Usually scientists are better at making up names...just saying. |
Posted by: Incredulous 2014-03-27 18:52 |
#6 BrerRabbit wins the thread. |
Posted by: Pappy 2014-03-27 14:49 |
#5 Will someone PLEASE build a golf course on that sucker. |
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-03-27 14:08 |
#4 And it belongs to Muslims! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-27 11:43 |
#3 Nicknamed Biden cause its dim and way out there. |
Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-03-27 11:33 |
#2 58th state? |
Posted by: no mo uro 2014-03-27 06:50 |
#1 Amazing discovery. Someplace FLOTUS has yet to visit. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-27 04:24 |