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Real0ne -> RE: What! A 12 Planet Solar System? (1/14/2007 2:22:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
Save Pluto As A Planet, before its too late! It'll be Uranus next.
The idea of my anus getting plutoed worries me. Im not sure why.
On a serious note, the way ancient people found planets is by looking up into the night sky night after night after night, and noticing how the stars moved as the year went by.
If you have billions and billions of stars moving their procession through the heavens like clockwork. Then they saw 9 or 12 or whatever of these stars moving out of synchronicity with the rest of them.
We have people doing this today, only they are doing it to chart satellites. A few of the web sites were listed in Astronomy magazine a few months ago, but you can go plug in where you were, what time of night it was, the general location in the sky (what stars was it near at that time) and the web site will spit out what the name of the satellite is. Or not, if the satellite is a black box in orbit.
Just me, etc.
Sinergy
i didnt verify it but these guys claim the sumarians had a calander that was accurate within minutes and are the only ancient society to accurately plot the planets in our solar system. The problem is of course that they show a couple planets we have yet to discover, the 10th planet that completes an orbit every 3000 years that we have now verified to be true.
Rumor has it that part of one of the space shuttle missions was expected to gather data in more depth on this. Makes sense to me since we thought for years there were only 9 planets in the hood. The only thing that bothers me about that approach is that i thought the hubbel could be repositioned?
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