Nakharar Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Scientists find '10th planet' Monday, March 15, 2004 Posted: 6:21 AM EST (1121 GMT) (CNN) -- Scientists may have discovered the solar system's 10th planet, more than 3 billion kilometers farther away from the sun than Pluto. NASA is set to make an official announcement later Monday U.S. time. The object -- about 10 billion kilometers from Earth -- has been given the provisional name of Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea. Dr. Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and his team of astronomers, using the recently launched high power Spitzer Space Telescope, found Sedna during an ongoing three-year outer solar system project. The Tenagra Observatory in Arizona was used to provide a verifying second set of measurements for the object. Sedna is the largest object to be found circling the sun since Pluto was discovered in 1930. The discovery has also sparked debate over what constitutes a planet. Initial details indicated Sedna to be made of ice and rock and to be of a smaller size than Pluto, with a diameter of almost 2,000 km. Many astronomers say Pluto, with a diameter of 2,300 km, is too small to be a termed a planet and is actually just one of many minor objects in the outer reaches of the solar system. But those who argue Pluto is a planet are likely to push the claim for Sedna to become the 10th planet in the solar system. Dr. Brown will present the discovery during a NASA briefing on Monday at 1:00 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in August last year and is the fourth of NASA's Great Observatories. The program also includes the Hubble Space Telescope. Our solar systemMercury Diameter: 4,880 km, Mean distance from sun approx. 58 million km.Venus 12,140 km, 108 million km.Earth 12,756 km, 150 million km.Mars 6,787 km, 228 million km.Jupiter 142,800 km, 778 million km.Saturn 120,660 km, 1,.4 billion km.Uranus 51,118 km, 2,9 billion km.Neptune 49,528 km, 4.5 billion km.Pluto 2,300 km, 5.9 billion km. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Indeed, I read this in the morning, of the 10th planet, or the infamous "12th planet". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Indeed, I read this in the morning, of the 10th planet, or the infamous "12th planet". The "infamous" planet in question was supposed to be big... this one is not really a planet(too small), neither has it the orbit of a Comet. So better luck the next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 The latest news is that Ankara is preparing to invade the said planet. Good! The farther they are the better. We also know about the Markarian Garalxy that was discovered astronomer Benyamin Markariana and aptly named for him. Speaking of galaxies and planets the Armenian word for planet is "molorak" ans the word for satellite is "arpanyak". Who knows the Armenian names of the planets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angel4hope Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 i thought they were all the same both in english and armenian except hayerenov jupiter= "h"upiter lol therefore the accent hehe or so ive heard people call it -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 (edited) i thought they were all the same both in english and armenian except hayerenov jupiter= "h"upiter lol therefore the accent hehe or so ive heard people call it -- Yes Virginia :) the planets (most of them) have native Armenian names, but don't try to find them in modern Russo-Latin Armenian monographs even though some individual monographs do give the Armenian names i.e if one would look up Yubider/Hupiter it may say "Hayeren anvanum@ .. Lousntag". The following, in bold, is from the site below where one may find more interesting info. However, according to other sources and my faint memory Jupiter is Lousntag and Venus is Arousyak. Of course we know that the order of the planets in distance from the sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. http://www.saintsarkis.org/armenian_calendar.htm Mars Hrad Ðñ³ï Mercury Payladzou ö³ÛɳÍáõ Venus Lousntag ÈáõëÝó· Jupiter Arousiag ²ñáõë»³Ï Saturn Yerevag ºñºõ³Ï Neptune Nebtoun Ü»åïáõÝ Uranus Ouran àõñ³Ý Pluto Bloudon äÉáõïáÝ Earth Yergir ºñÏÇñ Edited March 15, 2004 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevo27 Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 whatever happened to planet X ???? they lost interest in that?? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 whatever happened to planet X ???? they lost interest in that?? lol Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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