New planet discovery?

[JP4CY]

I find stuff like this fascinating:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=planetx-1986

 

[roundball]

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles...and the "Pickles" is Pluto!

 

[BCClone]

Will snoop dogg give commentary on this?

 

[00clone]

Pluto's text to new planet:

"Congrats, but don't trust 'em, they'll start pretending like you don't exist in a few decades."

 

[NorthCyd]

I find stuff like this fascinating:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=planetx-1986

This article is bunk. We've known about planet X for a long time.

 

[Turn2]

Interesting that we can detect planets in systems far into the galaxy, but don't know so much about our own "neighborhood".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche_%28hypothetical_planet%29


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

 

[Cyclonepride]

Interesting that we can detect planets in systems far into the galaxy, but don't know so much about our own "neighborhood".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche_%28hypothetical_planet%29


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

That's what is strange to me. We are examining things thousands of times further away, but this one just got found? Seems odd, but I suppose the distances involved are a bit mind blowing.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Imagery just in from the Hubble telescope..

 

[StClone]

My time again!

 

[00clone]

That's what is strange to me. We are examining things thousands of times further away, but this one just got found? Seems odd, but I suppose the distances involved are a bit mind blowing.

I'm not an astronomer, but I think it's basically this:

We find exoplanets in other solar systems when they transit (cross in front) of their star and the star dims slightly. This planet is not between the sun and us, so it doesn't transit the sun. It's also far enough away from any other stars that they wouldn't dim enough for us to notice. Finally, it's not found like the other planets in our solar system were because it's so far from our sun that it's not illuminated enough for us to see it easily.

 

[weR138]

I hope they fire the people on the naming committee that came up with Uranus.

 

[StClone]

I hope they fire the people on the naming committee that came up with Uranus.

To the literate, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. According to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. Pretty apt.

 

[CyinCo]

My favorite line from the article:

"but it was far too small to tug meaningfully on Uranus."

Giggity!

 

[CYTUTT]

I hope they name it "Lovetron" in honor of Darryl Dawkins!

 

[NorthCyd]

To the literate, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. According to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. Pretty apt.

 

[Bigman38]

To the literate, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. According to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. Pretty apt.

it means butt

 

[BCClone]

it means butt

No, he was saying Jupiter and Saturn came from Uranus. That had to hurt.

 

[Farnsworth]

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles...and the "Pickles" is Pluto!

the hell was wrong with your school? Pickles!?!?! It's Pizza!

edit: or is it over my head and you're replacing Pizza with Pickles, like Pluto getting replaced.

 

[weR138]

To the literate, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. According to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. Pretty apt.

I def want to party with this madman.

 

[theantiAIRBHG]

To the literate, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky. According to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. Pretty apt.

Can't read post. Not literate