Friday, August 18, 2006

Look! Up in the sky! ...It's a bird? It's a Plane! ...No you Dummy, it's a Newly Discovered Planet!!

Notice anything moving in this picture? If you can, then you too have seen our tenth planet, still un-named: 2003UB313 but folks around seem to like to want to call it Xena. This chunk of God-forsaken ice and rock lives in the region of our solar system called the " Kuiper Belt" and contrary to popular opinion this is not the sort of belt worn around the waist to hold-up your pants! This belt, a swarm of icy bodies lives beyond Neptune in orbit around the sun, thus Pluto is included in the belt of orbital debris.

But if you were born on Xena I would not want to wait until I was 21 years old to drink, because it takes this 'slow-moving-wasteland-excuse-for-a-planet' about 580 earth-years to orbit the sun!!

5 comments:

  1. Well, you guys wanted a change of topic!! Okay, I'll change the topic again!!

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  2. nooooo. no more planets. i have a hard enough time remembering the 9 they taught me in school!

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  3. Why are you repeating...repeating, repeating yourself?

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  4. Welcome bothenook! Nice to see a new face here!

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  5. ...Gee, it seems no sooner then this is dubbed "Planet" then the status is taken away!

    ...Go figure, now it's being called a "dwarf planet" instead!

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