08-27-2006, 07:59 PM | #81 |
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Well, Pluto is a dwarf planet at least. That seems fair. That way, Pluto is just demoted, not fired, and we don't have to call a bunch of asteroids planets.
This was all done on my birthday too. edit: I wonder what this means for astrology, now that Pluto is stripped of its planet powers.
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Ahem...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5697880 P.S. -- I'm merging this with the astronomy thread, since we already have the discussion going there.
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08-28-2006, 01:45 PM | #89 |
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Boy they are opening up a can of worms when we start trying to categorize planets outside our solar system with this decision. If its a gas giant that should be sufficient to call it a planet. No matter whatever else applies to it.
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Practically all known exoplanets are gas giants and I guess a reliable presumption is that their masses have been sufficient to "clear the neighbourhood" and all, thus making them planets. But that would be hard to verify using today's telescopes.
However if an exoplanet has too large a mass (enough to start fusion processes), it would have to be considered a "brown dwarf" rather than a planet. Astronomers have also found a couple of celestial bodies that don't seem to orbit around a star. They've been called "free floating planets" but with the new planet definition, perhaps they should be called "free floating objects" or something? But perhaps there are different criteria for planets outside our solar system. Last edited by Jonathan : 08-28-2006 at 02:48 PM. |
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You guys have probably already been talking about it, but I have found out that Pluto has been announced a non-planet. I guess that means those three "planets" won't be added to our textbooks after all?
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09-11-2006, 10:47 PM | #93 |
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it has been a while since i read it, but i once read something....
anyways. it was an article. an article about black holes. apparently they can now make a black hole by using a particle accelerator to smash to particles together at ludicrous speeds, and it makes a black hole...somehow. unfortunately, they're unstable, and don't last, which is a bad thing because...well...i guess they WANT their labs to be sucked into an inky black abyss of nothingness...go figure...anyone else read that article or a similar article?
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As always when someone posts about such new findings, the other readers of the thread want sources . Especially if the article was a scientific one and not just a newspaper article.
In any case I'd take the whole "black hole" thing with the biggest pinch of salt you ever saw
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yes, it was a scientific magazine...it was...........popular science. no idea what month/year though...TO GOOGLE!
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I think they were talking about a "technical black hole" that was microscopic and lasted an almost immeasurably short period of time before dissipating. So nothing too worrisome.
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09-13-2006, 02:49 PM | #97 |
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yes. that's exactly what i had in mind. still, they could work on it, and make awesome big ones to destroy such evils as...as...RICHARD SIMMONS!
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Well, there is no way they could get one to last. And besides, their lab wouldn't experience anything, really. They'd just suddenly have a hole in the floor, or potentially a volcano where the black hole fell through five miles of crust. Unless, you mean smaller than that, well, supposedly there are very small black holes all over the place. *checks closet and doesn't experience time dilation* Or so rumor has it...
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Food for thought, though I like responses, it makes me feel like I am not being completely and totally ignored, though that may be good in some cases.. yada,yada,yada..etc. etc. ANYway, I have some questions that are related to previously talked of subjects, here they are: We bought a starter telescope for about 1200 dollars , but it included everything you needed to go pretty advanced, it even talks to you. Has anyone said anything about the stars/constallations that are described in Tolkien's books? I don't remember how much detail Aragorn and Galadriel get into when they talk about the stars. (On seperate occations.) Shokran. (**arabic for thank-you for those less educated than the exaled me. ) |
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