Nup no having it, if they have found another planet, it’s the 10th. Pluto always has been and always will be the 9th planet!

So real or fake? I know in the past there’s been nonsense about planet called nibiru that’s going to collide with earth. But this seems plausible? Or have I just fell for a hoax? 😆

https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

Plan(et) 9 from Outer Space?

If it is not like earth it’s useless? Yes?

Potentially pretty exciting. I have struggled to think of Pluto as anything other than a planet as well.

chewkw – Member
If it is not like earth it’s useless? Yes?

If it is like earth, would that make it anymore useful? Considering we haven’t made a man made journey any further than apollo 13 managed in 1970!

But of you think of Pluto as a planet then this must be at least the 11th, Eris is more massive than Pluto and there’s likely other large trans neputunian objects out there. As the article says, gravitationally dominating it’s region of space would make it a very different kettle of fish.

When I saw the story, one article said that Eris was initially classed as larger than Pluto, but has been recently been downsized. Apparently now slightly smaller than Pluto.

I’m going to need to grow another finger.

Eris is thought to be slightly smaller but more massive IIRC.

lemonysam – Member
But of you think of Pluto as a planet then this must be at least the 11th, Eris is more massive than Pluto and there’s likely other large trans neputunian objects out there. As the article says, gravitationally dominating it’s region of space would make it a very different kettle of fish.

Not that I was being serious! 😆 But aye, you would have a point!

There’s been a lot of conjecture about a trans-Neptunian planet, either a gas-giant or rocky, because of perturbations in the Kuiper Belt, but nobody’s been able to find any convincing evidence; this, however, seems to supply enough evidence to show exactly where to begin looking properly. I really hope they manage to actually find it.
As for Pluto, well, I’m not losing sleep over the planet/dwarf planet debate, it’s an extraordinary place, looking at the photos that have already come back, quite unlike anywhere else in the system, and that more than makes up for the demotion.

Think you’ll be lucky to see anything atm in Malvern,it’s as foggy as a very foggy place!!