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2003 Ub 313: The Incredible Shrinking Planet?, No bigger than Pluto?
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post Jan 31 2006, 09:20 PM
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Betelgeuze
post Apr 12 2006, 05:15 AM
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The problem is that it's easy to say that now with just one solar system and nine (or eight or ten, depending on who's counting) planets. What happens when we start finding solar systems where the equivalent of Mercury is the size of Europa or Triton? Is the response of astronomers to be: Sorry, you have to be "this big" to qualify as a planet.

For some reason the exoplanets in the PSR 1257+12 system never get a lot of attention, yet they are as small or even smaller as Pluto. Did we discover small planets or are they the first asteroids/minor planets we found around another star?
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post Apr 12 2006, 05:45 AM
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PSR 1257+12 B and C are a few times more massive than the Earth, A is about the size of the Moon. There's probably yet another body, but not even the discoverers call it a planet as it is has only one fifth the mass of Pluto.


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post Apr 12 2006, 06:05 AM
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QUOTE (Jyril @ Apr 12 2006, 05:45 AM) *
PSR 1257+12 B and C are a few times more massive than the Earth, A is about the size of the Moon. There's probably yet another body, but not even the discoverers call it a planet as it is has only one fifth the mass of Pluto.

Interesting.

Yet again it seems to be only the term "planet" which attracts this debate. Consider neutron stars. They are not even as big as many asteroids or Kuiper belt objects, much less Pluto, yet no astronomer seems to be suggesting that their diminutive size means we should stop calling them "neutron stars" and dub them (say) "neutron objects" or "neutron dwarfs" instead.

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- BruceMoomaw   2003 Ub 313: The Incredible Shrinking Planet?   Jan 31 2006, 09:20 PM
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