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""Hubble takes us to within a stone's throw of the big bang itself.""

Interesting Stuff for those interested in Astronomy, or even if you're keen to know how the universe started (no religious types please).

[URL]http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/hubble_UDF.html[/URL]

Also, the news today, they have found a 10th planet in our solar system. How long I wonder until it has 'Intel Inside' plastered onto its surface ...

why have you erased it, RBS?

poopots wrote:
> Well there your wrong the moon is classified as a moon as it orbits
> another earth. If my memory serves me correct one of the moons that
> orbit Jupiter is bigger than Pluto.

right you are matey, just ignore my incoherent ramblings ... :D

*erased*

ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> the reason they were saying that perhaps pluto shouldn't be classified
> as a planet, is because of its small size. That's why the moon isn't
> considered a planet.

Well there your wrong the moon is classified as a moon as it orbits another earth. If my memory serves me correct one of the moons that orbit Jupiter is bigger than Pluto.

Learn about all the planets (and the sun, asteroids, comets and whatever) here if you are that way inclined :

[URL]http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm[/URL]

H²O wrote:
> Pluto isnt concidered a planet (anymore) because of its oval shaped
> orbit round the sun, because this is seen in comets. And of course
> its small size, but that isnt the main reason.
>
> They have decided this because if they continued to call it a planet
> they would have to classify loads of comets as planets.
>
> Correct me if im wrong.
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I thought all the planetary orbits were elliptical, i.e. oval?

And comets are defined by the fact that they have a tail that always points away from the sun and that their orbit takes them from very near to the sun to very far away, i.e. the sun is in the corner of their orbit, not the centre.

yeh, it was terrible lizard.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Did you know the literal translation is "tyrant lizard
> king"?
>
> Far cooler sounding ;)
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I thought it was Terrible Lizard? Anyway, I was quoting from Calvin & Hobbes.

The fact that it may possibly be made of ice doesnt actually come in to it, just think of jupiter. It's made of gas, no actual solid in it (so they say) and that is still a planet.

To clear that sentence up, the "so" goes with the "much" and not the "and".