Pluto = the REAL planet 9!!
No, I'm still not over it...
Planet 9 will be easier to find if we know what we're looking for, so a French astronomer has set himself the task of trying to wrap the enigma in some parameters. When the idea of a ninth planet (using the guidelines that excluded Pluto from planet status) was mooted last year, the CalTech group that ran the orbital maths …
... Planet Claire!
And homeopaths will unite to buy time on one of those 30m telescopes, enabling them to focus Planet 9's light* on a vial of distilled water so it can be diluted, succussed and used as a cure** for icy haemorrhoids or something.
* Don't even start...
** Really. Don't start.
If it is a large planet, then internal heat would drive atmospheric convection, so thunderstorms could be a possibility.
Despite its distance from the Sun and cloudtop bollock-chilling temperature of 52K, Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System at 2200kmh and incredibly active storm systems. The role of internal heat in powering Neptune's weather is shown by the fact its near twin, Uranus, despite being much closer to the Sun, has a much calmer atmosphere. Uranus has no apparent internal heat source, and no one knows why.
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"Weigh is way better, but not whey. Too cheesy."
Weigh is certainly a verb but definitely NOT the correct word to use in this context. Mass is the correct noun and so the construct should be .... .it would have a mass about ten times more than Earth
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Apparently there's a new definition of 'planet' being pushed by someone - I'm not sure who and this comes from bar chatter, so grains of salt aplenty - that would boost the number of planets in our solar system to over 200 (I forget the exact number). This definition would include not only Pluto and all the other dwarf planets but also most if not all of the moons in our solar system. Basically, it's anything with enough gravity to pull itself into a sphereoid. Personally I inwardly groaned at this definition.
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