2003 Ub 313: The Incredible Shrinking Planet?, No bigger than Pluto? |
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2003 Ub 313: The Incredible Shrinking Planet?, No bigger than Pluto? |
 Feb 14 2006, 10:41 AM
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"I can't believe I ate the ***WHOLE*** THING!
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Feb 14 2006, 03:34 PM
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Personally, I'd be more worried about your stuffed animals!
Tales of the Plush Cthulhu -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 14 2006, 10:07 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Feb 14 2006, 08:57 AM)  Bruce: Er, not personally, never been able to finish a whole one. Is there something you're trying to tell us? Hmm... Bob Shaw Nope. Most of my enemies are, unfortunately, not fit for human consumption. |
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Feb 19 2006, 12:34 PM
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Feb 21 2006, 10:22 AM
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Amateurs spot 10th planet
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/20xena/ |
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Mar 4 2006, 10:27 AM
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The IAU will publish beginning of September 2006 the definition of a "Planet".
http://www.iau.org/TRANS-NEPTUNIAN_OBJECT_2003_UB.324.0.html |
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Mar 4 2006, 10:48 PM
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Dear God, I hope they don't decide that Pluto is a planet but this new thing isn't. I could tolerate anything but that...
In any case, now we can look forward to comparable decade-long squabbles about the precise definition of "moons" as opposed to "ring particles", and whether we should call newly discovered objects "asteroids" or "comets" when we don't know how much ice is in them. The joys will be endless! |
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Mar 4 2006, 10:58 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Mar 4 2006, 10:48 PM) Dear God, I hope they don't decide that Pluto is a planet but this new thing isn't. I could tolerate anything but that... In any case, now we can look forward to comparable decade-long squabbles about the precise definition of "moons" as opposed to "ring particles", and whether we should call newly discovered objects "asteroids" or "comets" when we don't know how much ice is in them. The joys will be endless! Bruce: Comets are getting drier and drier, and some asteroids might be quite wet... ...sounds like tearing hair out time! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 19 2006, 10:42 PM
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No news for a while, which is kind of a shame. I heard a rumour that the satellite might have been an imaging artifact, but it's probably not true.
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Mar 20 2006, 05:09 PM
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Well, it's only been a month or so since the last news update. It would be great if there was something new every day, but, "that ain't so".
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Apr 11 2006, 05:45 PM
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Apr 11 2006, 06:08 PM
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FOR RELEASE: 1:00 pm (EDT) April 11, 2006
Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington (Phone: 202/358-1237/1726) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. (Phone: 410/338-4514; E-mail: villard@stsci.edu) PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR06-16 HUBBLE FINDS THAT THE 'TENTH PLANET' IS SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN PLUTO NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the "tenth planet," nicknamed "Xena," for the first time and has found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto. Though previous ground-based observations suggested that Xena was about 30 percent greater in diameter than Pluto, Hubble observations taken on Dec. 9 and 10, 2005, yield a diameter of 1,490 miles (with an uncertainty of 60 miles) for Xena. Pluto's diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles. Xena is officially catalogued as 2003 UB313. It is the large object at the bottom of this artist's concept. A portion of its surface is lit by the Sun, located in the upper left corner of the image. Xena's companion, Gabrielle, is located just above and to the left of Xena. For electronic images and additional information about the research on the Web, visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/16 http://www.nasa.gov/hubble For more information, contact Robert Tindol, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, (phone) 626-395-3631, (e-mail) tindol@caltech.edu, or Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, (phone) 626-395-8423, (e-mail) mbrown@gps.caltech.edu . The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The Institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 12 2006, 12:09 AM
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Robert Roy Britt, in his blog on this subject ( http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/robbritt ), positively DEMANDS that both Pluto and 2003 UB 313 not be called "planets" yet, unless the IAU gives us permission to do so. Who died and made YOU King of the Solar System, Robert?
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Apr 12 2006, 12:31 AM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 12 2006, 01:09 AM) Robert Roy Britt, in his blog on this subject ( http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/robbritt ), positively DEMANDS that both Pluto and 2003 UB 313 not be called "planets" yet, unless the IAU gives us permission to do so. Who died and made YOU King of the Solar System, Robert? Bruce: Perhaps the Touch of A Noodly Appendage has elevated him? Let me rephrase that... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Apr 12 2006, 01:22 AM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 12 2006, 12:09 AM) Robert Roy Britt, in his blog on this subject ( http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/robbritt ), positively DEMANDS that both Pluto and 2003 UB 313 not be called "planets" yet, unless the IAU gives us permission to do so. Who died and made YOU King of the Solar System, Robert? Well, actually he indicates that if the IAU does give us permission to do so, it will be the sign of the Apocalypse. |
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