Here it is guys! The 10th planet! Not sure though. :-( Well, its worth the information to be given to everybody especially to students and spark their dwindling curiosity for Science. :( I will post more of this info. This is an article I got from CNN. Hopefully, if Pluto, which is believed to be part of Kuiper Belt, is demoted as a planet and Sedna confirmed to be a real planet, Sedna will replace Pluto as the 9th planet. Recently, I read on Discover Magazine that scientists are eyeing on 2 more planets, named planet x and y. Expect more posts regarding this subject on the days to come. Enjoy this article for the meantime. :) Read on!
Julius
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NASA: An artist's rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," in relation to other bodies in the Solar System, including Earth and its Moon, Pluto, and Quaoar.
Sunday, July 31, 2005; Posted: 11:31 a.m. EDT (15:31 GMT)
PASADENA, California (CNN) -- Astronomers announced Friday that an object they discovered in the distant reaches of the solar system is large enough to be the 10th planet -- a claim likely to reignite a debate over just how many objects should be called planets.
The object -- 96 times as far from the Earth as the Earth is from the sun, or nearly 9 billion miles away -- was first photographed in October 2003 by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory, north of San Diego.
While researchers say they aren't yet sure of its actual size, they have determined the object is bigger than Pluto...
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