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Muppet
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how many planets are in our solar system?
#6685460 - 03/18/07 10:24 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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you might be surprized at the real answer on this one...
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685463 - 03/18/07 10:25 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Depends on what state you live in. I hear one state, AZ maybe, is going to dispute the Pluto Not a Planet theory.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: DNKYD]
#6685468 - 03/18/07 10:25 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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I miss Pluto.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685469 - 03/18/07 10:25 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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>1000 in the Milky Way Galaxy...
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Legend9123]
#6685476 - 03/18/07 10:27 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Depends on what you define "planet" as.
Do dwarf-planets count?
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Legend9123]
#6685479 - 03/18/07 10:27 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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theres like 300,000,000,000 planets and stars in the MWG
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Muppet
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Legend9123]
#6685511 - 03/18/07 10:35 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Quote:
Legend9123 said: >1000 in the Milky Way Galaxy...
lol...I was wondering if anyone would catch on to that
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685526 - 03/18/07 10:38 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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I almost didn't until I was reading through the poll and went WTF? MWG!=solar system. Sneaky Sneaky sir.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685536 - 03/18/07 10:40 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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nah...but seriously though
even Nasa has disputed Pluto as being an According to Hoyal 'planet' ---> click
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685542 - 03/18/07 10:42 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Yeah this has been discussed a lot recently. I thought I heard something about New Mexico or some state deciding they were going to stay with the nine planet theory regardless.
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Muppet
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Legend9123]
#6685551 - 03/18/07 10:44 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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I can see New Mexico doing something like that
they're a little ass-backwards there
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685556 - 03/18/07 10:45 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Haha so I have heard. I can't remember what state it was exactly. I will look it up.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Legend9123]
#6685562 - 03/18/07 10:49 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: skeeter]
#6685609 - 03/18/07 11:07 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Quote:
skeeter said: I miss Pluto.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685643 - 03/18/07 11:20 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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lol really nice and funny
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: blissedout]
#6685648 - 03/18/07 11:23 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Some jupiters moons are big enough to be a planet. Like others says...it all depends on what defines a planet.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: daytripper05]
#6685656 - 03/18/07 11:26 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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theres 9, its what i was raised to think and what i will die thinking...end of story
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: daytripper05]
#6685663 - 03/18/07 11:27 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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As defined by the International Astronomical Union, a planet is:
(1) A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape1, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet.2
(2) We distinguish between the eight classical planets discovered before 1900, which move in nearly circular orbits close to the ecliptic plane, and other planetary objects in orbit around the Sun. All of these other objects are smaller than Mercury. We recognize that Ceres is a planet by the above scientific definition. For historical reasons, one may choose to distinguish Ceres from the classical planets by referring to it as a "dwarf planet."3
(3) We recognize Pluto to be a planet by the above scientific definition, as are one or more recently discovered large Trans-Neptunian Objects. In contrast to the classical planets, these objects typically have highly inclined orbits with large eccentricities and orbital periods in excess of 200 years. We designate this category of planetary objects, of which Pluto is the prototype, as a new class that we call "plutons".
(4) All non-planet objects orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".4
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: Muppet]
#6685717 - 03/18/07 11:50 PM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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i choose nine planets because it resembles the nine planets of my psyche.
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Re: how many planets are in our solar system? [Re: AlteredAgain]
#6685812 - 03/19/07 12:35 AM (17 years, 14 days ago) |
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Which are??
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