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    The 10th Planet!

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    Most Distant Object In Solar System Discovered

    NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.

    "The sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin," said Dr. Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif., associate professor of planetary astronomy and leader of the research team. The object, called Sedna for the Inuit goddess of the ocean, is 13 billion kilometers (8 billion miles) away, in the farthest reaches of the solar system.
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    Does anyone remember that other planet they found a few years ago? It was called smilie or something like that.

    Im not sure what they decided about it, so maybe this is actually the 11th planet?
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    Interesting...

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    about 3 years ago we discovered Planet X :O
    So yes, this is the 11th planet

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    There is no real "Planet X". This is the 10th planet.
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    There is a lot of debate over whether or not actually call it a planet because of it's size, and the material it is made of.

    This is apparently of a similar size, if not slightly bigger than pluto, so technically should be called a planet but many people seem to disagree.
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    It's actually much smaller than pluto. Guys, don't you read Slashdot? Geez...
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    Noone knows for sure what's behind Uranus

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    Originally posted by timechange.com
    Noone knows for sure what's behind Uranus

    LOL. TC always finds a place to crack a joke.
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    I blogged this yesterday: http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archiv...et-discovered/

    Apparently it's "slightly smaller than Pluto"... I wonder, how does this affect us, if at all?
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    It's not a planet. Too small. That's the final word.

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    interesting.......very interesting

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    Originally posted by timechange.com
    Noone knows for sure what's behind Uranus


    This is neat stuff, I wonder if one day it will officially be added to our so called text books...

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    I will no longer able to use "My very educated mother just served us nine pizza's?

    they'll add another line to make it sound even funnier..
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