10th Planet Discovered ***CONFIRMED***

[BRObedoza]

screwit sell the naming rights like football stadiums for a few billion

planet starbucks or microsoft world

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: bobbybe01

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Originally posted by: wasserkool
just wondering when they are sending a probe or spacecraft to pluto?

hard to..who cares anyways?

They don't talk about Uranus too much, either...

They changed the name of Uranus do to all the lame jokes about it.

It's now called "Urectum."

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: ViRGE
FYI, it's not a planet yet. It's planet-sized, but it's not really a planet until it's gone through debate and given an official name.

Not everyone agrees pluto is a planet. AFAIAC there are only 8 planets. Pluto is a Kuniper belt object and doesn't meet the requirements and neither does that half a dozen other objects in the belt people have tried to call planets at one time or another.

I can see you wearing a T-Shirt saying that: "AFAIAC there are only 8 planets"

 

[SagaLore]

In other news, Astrologer sues NASA again for finding the discovery:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1573733&enterthread=y

 

[thesurge]

w00t!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: thesurge
w00t!

That should be the official name, Planet Woot.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I call the new planet, Planet Clit.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i for one welcome our new planet x overlords

They're welcome to start broadcasting prime numbers anytime.

 

[Wallydraigle]

This is like the 15th tenth planet they've found. Pretty soon we'll have a hundred tenth planets at least.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
I call the new planet, Planet Clit.

I'm all for Planet Hollywood

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: umbrella39

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: umbrella39

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: EyeMNathan
Well aplefka, this IS the home of the Armchair Everything Expert.

Seriously though, some people need to fvcking check themselves out in the head and realize they're nowhere near as intelligent as they think they are.

You are no exception so sthu and put your own epenis back in your pants. Until the IAU says it's a planet, it isn't. I am not at all impressed with your gratuitous name calling.

Edit for spelling.

What the hell are you talking about? Gratuitous name-calling? I called those debating douchebags, and said they looked like asses. Sorry if that offended you, though I can't say I care much about impressing you. :roll:

If the articles are reporting it as a 10th planet, what are people supposed to think? Are they automatically supposed to know "Oh hey, it's not an official planet yet even though the article that I read said that it's a new planet and they're debating whether or not it should be classified as such." Seriously, who gives a sh1t about semantics when it's just interesting. Worry about semantics when more details are given.

No offense taken Judging from the articles linked it sure sounds like they have closed the case on this and it is a planet. But NASA does not decide nor does Brown, the guy who discovered it. Though I am sure he would like to since it would put him in the history books forever. Who can blame him. Probably would have some major bucks attached to something that significant. The IAU makes the call and hell, they are still debating whether or not to declassify Pluto as a planet and if they do, this newly discovered object will surly suffer the same fate despite its larger mass. Its 44 degree elliptical orbit leads me to think they will classify it as a KBO and not a planet but like you mentioned, with a few exceptions on the board I am sure, non of our opinions really mean jack as we are not qualified. I am just as interested as you and think that with the VLT going online now this type of discoveries will become more common place. There is a lot out there we have not been able to see that hopefully we will be able to now. Cheers.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The thing is what it is. I.e., almost twice the size of Pluto, and way way out there. Whether we call it a planet or a KBO is more or less irrelevant to those of us who don't make our living in Astronomy.

 

[Chadder007]

OH SNAP!!!!111!! We are never going to hear the end of this on Coast to Coast AM on the radio now!!! Planet X!!111one!1juan!

 

[FoBoT]

is this in anyway related to recent rise in alien abduction/anal probe implantations?

 

[Fritzo]

They were talking on CNN? MSNBC? One of the TV news shows that they might actually make a new class of objects called Kuiper Belt Planets.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: slick230

Originally posted by: Kensai
Some country should throw a few nukes at it.

To paraphrase the brilliant comic Eddie Izzard,

"That's how you build an empire. Fly to the newly discovered planet, stick a flag in. "I claim Planet X for Earth."
And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us."
"Do you have a flag?"
"We don't need a flag, this is our planet you bastard."

haha that made me laugh out loud... the original went something like:
That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in.
"I claim India for Britain."
And they're going,
"You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us."
"Do you have a flag?"
"We don't need a flag, this is our country you bastard."

Originally posted by: PCFetish

Originally posted by: middlehead
It's not a planet until we have condos on it!

and starbucks

ROFL!!!

 

[batmanuel]

As far as the Roman gods are concerned, Sterculius is still available (probably for good reason).

I personally hope that if the IAU doesn't take this as a hint to reclassify Pluto as a KBO, that there are enough Doctor Who fans on the IAU to name the tenth planet Mondas.

 

[catnap1972]

 

[catnap1972]

What's with all the name speculation? It's gonna be named "DUBYA", of course (after we've invaded, pillaged anything of value, and left a mess)

 

[KDOG]

How' bout this greek word - Phallus

(snicker, snicker)

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: bobbybe01

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Originally posted by: wasserkool
just wondering when they are sending a probe or spacecraft to pluto?

hard to..who cares anyways?

They don't talk about Uranus too much, either...

Uranus could theoretically have liquid water and an entire sub-surface ocean.

 

[Vegitto]

How about Prometheus or Epimetheus? Artemis, perhaps?

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Azndude51
I didn't read all of the posts, so I don't know if this has been said before.

"Brown himself has argued in the past for Pluto's demotion from planet status, because of its diminutive size and eccentric and inclined orbit.

But on Friday he struck a different note. "

Sounds like he wants to call it a planet just so he can get the damned thing named after him. He didn't discover Pluto, so he argued against it.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Brown.

Somehow it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[HumblePie]

Jay Leno named the Tenth planet behind Pluto last night as Goofy

Who knows what's going to happen amoung the scientific community in terms of classification of this celestial object.

 

[Triumph]

Whatever we decide to call this planet, I think we should consider it hostile and attack first.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: hotchilisauce

Originally posted by: slick230

Originally posted by: Kensai
Some country should throw a few nukes at it.

To paraphrase the brilliant comic Eddie Izzard,

"That's how you build an empire. Fly to the newly discovered planet, stick a flag in. "I claim Planet X for Earth."
And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us."
"Do you have a flag?"
"We don't need a flag, this is our planet you bastard."

haha that made me laugh out loud... the original went something like:
That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in.
"I claim India for Britain."
And they're going,
"You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us."
"Do you have a flag?"
"We don't need a flag, this is our country you bastard."

Originally posted by: PCFetish

Originally posted by: middlehead
It's not a planet until we have condos on it!

and starbucks

ROFL!!!

and walmart and mcdonalds