New Dwarf Planet Discovered

[toobfreak]

Neptune is the outermost planet. Pluto is actually an unusually large rogue dwarf planet that was found mainly because it is large for its class and its orbit occasionally passes inside Neptune. But while scientists have found many other dwarf planets (KBOs or Kuiper Belt Objects), they just found another where they never expected to find one--- over 400 miles across and beyond the orbit of Neptune, to usually FAR beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Astronomers think they've discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system

The revelation means that the 'empty' space beyond Neptune may not be as empty as astronomers had thought.

www.newsweek.com

This thing is likely a captured intergalactic wanderer.

 

[toobfreak]

jwoodie, how do you justify "fake news" to a science report?

 

[Eman623]

Dwarf planets ARE planets!

 

[toobfreak]

Dwarf planets ARE planets!

Dwarf planets are dwarf planets. They don't meet all of the requirements to be a full-fledged planet.

 

[Eman623]

Dwarf planets are dwarf planets. They don't meet all of the requirements to be a full-fledged planet.

What is a planet?

 

[Moonglow]

Dwarf planets ARE planets!

They prefer the name Midget.

 

[Moonglow]

What is a planet?

Not a star.

 

[Moonglow]

I find it amazing how planets love to be an orb.

 

[Eman623]

I find it amazing how planets love to be an orb.

They are all revolutionary as well!

 

[Oddball]

"Little person" planet you you, pal.....

 

[ReinyDays]

Dwarf planets are a little puggy around the middle ... aren't you? ...

 

[22lcidw]

What is a planet?

One answer is that I believe that anything larger than the moon may be qualified as a planet in our solar system. Pluto was removed some years ago when the powers that be changed the parameters. Science Fiction has warp drive to othr solar systems. I hope we can at least eventually increase the speed of space travel to visit anything that is in our solar system within a reasonable amount of time.

 

[BackAgain]

1. It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun).
2. It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape.
3. It must be big enough that its gravity has cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun.

What is a Planet?

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union - a group of astronomers that names objects in our solar system - agreed on a new definition of the word "planet."

science.nasa.gov

 

[fncceo]

New Dwarf Planet Discovered​

LITTLE PEOPLE planet, if you don’t mind!