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Topic: 2 planets beyond Pluto? new theory
SheikOfLaBroquerie Joined Thu 01/31/13 Posts: 1973	Fri 01/16/15 06:03 PM
Which beckons the question... What constitutes being a 'planet?'

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Fri 01/16/15 06:08 PM
Which beckons the question... What constitutes being a 'planet?' who knows? lol, i'm confused there... mercury is a planet, but yet it has no moons (Pluto has 4) and is smaller than a moon around Jupiter... look up Neil deGrasse Tyson, he led the charge in changing pluto in a minor planet...

messi_is_a_tim_1888 Joined Fri 11/28/14 Posts: 3309	Fri 01/16/15 06:14 PM
Which beckons the question... What constitutes being a 'planet?' Moes right again Sheik. There's also a small planetoid out in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, called Ceres. Nasa, are launching a mission to it shortly.

SheikOfLaBroquerie Joined Thu 01/31/13 Posts: 1973	Fri 01/16/15 06:23 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!)

messi_is_a_tim_1888 Joined Fri 11/28/14 Posts: 3309	Sat 01/17/15 02:57 AM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) One McEwans export coming right up sir!

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Sat 01/17/15 03:12 AM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russel's Teapot!

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 06:43 AM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) seems like it would be a little more compilcated than that...

funkyfranky Joined Tue 05/01/12 Posts: 5966	Sat 01/17/15 11:11 AM
Very interesting indeed. Maybe men are not from Mars after all. Seriously though, it is fascinating all this space theory.

SheikOfLaBroquerie Joined Thu 01/31/13 Posts: 1973	Sat 01/17/15 03:17 PM
Oh Funkyfranky... Stay with us MEN, we'll get You playing for the right team yet.

messi_is_a_tim_1888 Joined Fri 11/28/14 Posts: 3309	Sat 01/17/15 03:19 PM
Oh Funkyfranky... Stay with us MEN, we'll get You playing for the right team yet. Leave the lassie alone Sheik? Frankys alright just the way she is mate?

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 03:21 PM
Oh Funkyfranky... Stay with us MEN, we'll get You playing for the right team yet. don't mess with franky, shes fine just the way she is... a total sweetheart

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Sat 01/17/15 03:32 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russell's Teapot! Wonder what Brand of Tea it contains!

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 03:35 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russell's Teapot! Wonder what Brand of Tea it contains! piccard liked earl grey...

messi_is_a_tim_1888 Joined Fri 11/28/14 Posts: 3309	Sat 01/17/15 03:42 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russell's Teapot! Wonder what Brand of Tea it contains! piccard liked earl grey... That's good enough for me if Picard liked it?

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 03:45 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russell's Teapot! Wonder what Brand of Tea it contains! piccard liked earl grey... That's good enough for me if Picard liked it? yea, earl was all he licked...

SheikOfLaBroquerie Joined Thu 01/31/13 Posts: 1973	Sat 01/17/15 03:47 PM Edited by SheikOfLaBroquerie on Sat 01/17/15 03:50 PM
Aye, I could use a McEwan's Export right about now. When I do drink tea though, it's usually Lap-Sang-Sou-Chong. It's dried and smoked under spruce-bows. It smells like a boiled railway tie and tastes like smoked salmon. A drink fit for a Klingon!

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 03:50 PM
Aye, I could use a McEwan's Export right about now. When I do drink tea though, it's usually Lap-Sang-Sou-Chong. It's dried and smoked under spruce-bows. It smells like a boiled rail-way tie and tastes like smoked salmon. A drink fit for a Klingon! a warf drink! to manly for piccard...

SheikOfLaBroquerie Joined Thu 01/31/13 Posts: 1973	Sat 01/17/15 03:54 PM
Warf and Piccard...? Well, I've got the best of both going on, I shave my head too.

messi_is_a_tim_1888 Joined Fri 11/28/14 Posts: 3309	Sat 01/17/15 03:54 PM
A Planet, arguably, is an object in a orbit around a star or our Sun, case in point. So, is a comet technically a planet that is in an extremely elongated orbit around our Sun. (Messy Tim, I need another drink!) so would be Russell's Teapot! Wonder what Brand of Tea it contains! Well it isn't the magic mushrooms, that you're full of 24/7 anyway!

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 01/17/15 03:55 PM
Warf and Piccard...? Well, I've got the best of both going on, I shave my head too. kinda hard to tell...