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New Tenth Planet Has a Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody's-doin'-it dept.

starexplorer writes "SPACE.com is reporting that the recently discovered 10th planet of our solar system has a neighbor - a moon. The discovery team also have nicknamed the planet 'Xena' and the moon 'Gabrielle'. Many scientists are objecting to whether the new planet really is a new planet - so what do you call a moon with no planet?"

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  1. Xena and Gabrielle? by layer3switch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "so what do you call a moon with no planet?"

    How about "Ellen Degeneres"?

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  2. " so what do you call a moon with no planet? " by dousk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    moonis aplanetus ! uhm...yeah....

  3. Re:Not a planet Yet by FFFish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    AFAIK Pluto is by all rational logic *not* a planet. It is piddling small, for one: half the size of merely the USA. Its orbit is completely off-kilter from *every* other planet, both out-of-alignment with the solar plane and with an eccentric orbit that has it swinging inside the path of Uranus. And it isn't even one chunk of rock: it appears to be a couple of half-sized chunks in very close proximity to one another!

    Pluto is a Kuiper object by all rational logic.

    It's officially a planet due to politics: it's the first planet the US Americans discovered, and ego demands it retain its planetary status. D-oh! Dumb scientists.

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