800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System

[GT98]

Not quite a planet nor an Astroid

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html

[KRSESQ]

Its a Planetoid!

Couldn't they have come up with an easier name to remember/pronounce?

Kevin

[ZokesPro]

The name rolls off the tongue!

[Dilitante1]

old news......................

I discovered my (soon to be ex)wife's @ss after 2 kids was this size, yet no fame or news blurp

[Dr Mordrid]

Quaoar (kwah-o-wahr) is a large Kuiper belt object, which means it's an object made of cometary material: rock, cabonaceous dust and ices (water, methane etc.).

The Kuiper belt is where comets originate, but 800 miles is one big f*****g comet

Both Pluto and its moon Charon are also suspected of being Kuiper belt objects that were somehow displaced closer to the sun, which is why there is some debate as to if Pluto is properly classified as a "planet".

Dr. Mordrid

[Greebe]

especially seeing that Pluto is outside the orbital plane of the other planets

[Strahd]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
The name rolls off the tongue!

Not quite as rolling as Uranus, but close.

[K6-III]

This will be the fuel future generations will use to leave the solar system and to simply survive....

[Gurm]

Ok, can anyone pull out of their ass the name of the guy who wrote the law that determines where planetary bodies OUGHT to be, given certain other information about the solar system and the star?

I can't for the life of me remember, and my web searches haven't turned up a lot.

I recall reading that this was one of the reasons people are skeptical of pluto's "planet" status, and that also there is/was some speculation that the asteroid belt ought to have been a planet (oops).

- Gurm

[Technoid]

One funny theory is that Pluto and charon is the 2 biggest chunks left of the planet that was where the asteroid belt is now....

[VJ]

Gurm: it's not Newton you are trying to think of, right ?

Jörg

[Gurm]

Ha, no.

- Gurm

[GT98]

I thought I read somewhere that there was some sort of gravational pull on either Neptune or Uranus that Pluto could never be able to do because of its mass...thus leading people to think that theres another planet out there.

[Dogbert]

So the first one to discover it can name it, right ?
Mmmm... Planet "Homer Simpson"...

[Drizzt]

Bode's law is the law that says when planets should be.
It's been used even by David Braben into his famous "Frontier" game to have realistic planets wherever the player should have decided to go into the game's universe, which is been left almost infinite.



Speaking about Plutone, it's presence was required by the Bode's empirical law mentioned above AND by a more direct factor; Urano and Nettuno's orbit are wrong: they act as they are perturbated by a big planet outer into the Solar System.

The discover of Plutone however do not fully explain the pertubation said and a new planet, called "Planet X", should have to be still there to discover.
Even thought recent datas received from more recent measurement over Nettuno mass tend to explain all the anomalies by the fact that Nettuno is lighter than what previously calculated, thus the anomalies would be not so, but more "normalities".


Sorry if someone does't understand all the above, but it's a bit difficult to explain those things in a foreign language