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tomnoddy_uk
Fire-eater
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
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Aug 16, 2006 - 02:55 PM |
 
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| Post subject: Solar System to have 12 planets??? |
when studying hard in my science class days i used
my
very
elegant
mother
just
served
us
nine
prunes
to learn the order of the planets.
today i read our solar system may well be extended from 9 to 12 planets (including Charon, UB313 and Ceres).
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4795755.stm
Any good ways of learning the extra ones?
M
V
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LifeMage
FooSlinger
Joined: Sep 30, 2005
Posts: 3954
Location: In the world...... but not of it.
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Aug 16, 2006 - 04:10 PM |
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first try....not so good, I'll try again later.
motor
vehicles
emit
monoxides,
just
stop
using
needless,
polluting
cars
u
c*nts |
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hammerforlife
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Joined: May 24, 2004
Posts: 2701
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Aug 16, 2006 - 06:20 PM |
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Could just expand the original:
"My very elegant mother just served us nine prunes (cruel uncaring cow). |
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pixelpunter
StreetBeater
Joined: Sep 15, 2005
Posts: 2199
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Aug 16, 2006 - 08:52 PM |
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The 'Mills&Boone' version..
(disclaimer: also a first attempt)
Miss
Veronica
Enjoys
Mango
Juice
Sitting
Under
Nick
Parker's
Canary
Umbrella'd
Canopy |
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Pablo_Picasso
Board Royalty
Joined: May 05, 2006
Posts: 6715
Location: Spain you bloody idiots.
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Aug 16, 2006 - 09:02 PM |
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My,
Vera
Eats
Morbidly.
Jesus!
Shut
Up!
Nosey
Parker,
Can't
Understand
Crap. |
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Pablo_Picasso
Board Royalty
Joined: May 05, 2006
Posts: 6715
Location: Spain you bloody idiots.
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Aug 16, 2006 - 09:03 PM |
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^ That was the Nathalie25 version. |
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hammerforlife
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Joined: May 24, 2004
Posts: 2701
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Aug 16, 2006 - 10:20 PM |
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| ^ That was the Nathalie25 version. |
No Nathalie's would have more smiley faces than that.
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Bush_GW
Lurker
Joined: June 24, 2006
Posts: 33
Location: that big white one on penn ave, can't miss it
Status: Offline
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Aug 16, 2006 - 11:54 PM |
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New World Order, hahahaha we did it, go neocon
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
UB313
and Here's something to remember it.
May
Vile
Evil
Muslim
Criminals'
Jihad
Suffer
Ultimate
Nightmarish
Punishment
Called
USA |
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CoffeeHawk_0
Board Buddha
Joined: July 14, 2005
Posts: 14444
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Aug 17, 2006 - 09:57 AM |
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Mandarin
Vixens
Emancipate
My
Chinese
Jock-strap
Since
Underwear
Needs
Purging
Cautiously,
Urgently |
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tomnoddy_uk
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Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2907
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Aug 25, 2006 - 11:31 AM |
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Number of solar system planets is 8
(AP)
Updated: 2006-08-25 06:17
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is - and isn't - a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Although astronomers applauded after the vote, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - a specialist in neutron stars from Northern Ireland who oversaw the proceedings - urged those who might be "quite disappointed" to look on the bright side.
"It could be argued that we are creating an umbrella called 'planet' under which the dwarf planets exist," she said, drawing laughter by waving a stuffed Pluto of Walt Disney fame beneath a real umbrella.
The decision by the prestigious international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects will have to meet before they can be considered for admission to the elite cosmic club.
For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
Instead, it will be reclassified in a new category of "dwarf planets," similar to what long have been termed "minor planets." The definition also lays out a third class of lesser objects that orbit the sun ¡ª "small solar system bodies," a term that will apply to numerous asteroids, comets and other natural satellites.
It was unclear how Pluto's demotion might affect the mission of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which earlier this year began a 9 1/2-year journey to the oddball object to unearth more of its secrets.
The decision at a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries was a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects.
That plan proved highly unpopular, splitting astronomers into factions and triggering days of sometimes combative debate that led to Pluto's undoing.
Now, two of the objects that at one point were cruising toward possible full-fledged planethood will join Pluto as dwarfs: the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, and 2003 UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto whose discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, has nicknamed "Xena."
Charon, the largest of Pluto's three moons, is no longer under consideration for any special designation.
Brown was pleased by the decision. He had argued that Pluto and similar bodies didn't deserve planet status, saying that would "take the magic out of the solar system."
"UB313 is the largest dwarf planet. That's kind of cool," he said. |
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pixelpunter
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Joined: Sep 15, 2005
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Aug 25, 2006 - 11:41 AM |
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Next we'll be going to the cinema's to watch "Revenge of the Plutonians! - who said we weren't a real planet?" |
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DonCorleone
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Joined: Sep 14, 2006
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Sep 15, 2006 - 02:38 PM |
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