Have they named the tenth planet yet? If so, does anyone know it's name? I' just interested..?
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no there is no 10th planet.\n\nwell scientists argue that pluto is small and should not be called a planet.\n\nso when they discovered Sedna( the 10th planet), it was smaller than pluto and so was considered as a mini planet.
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UB-313 (also known as "Xena"). This is the only "tenth planet" that has a moon and is larger than Pluto.\n\nThere are several other "planetoids" or "plutinos" including Sedna, Quaoar, Ixion, Varuna, and Orcus.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nthis same thing happened has happened before.  in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet.  astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit
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Yes, the general consensus appears to be that another planet has been found, which is currently designated 2003 UB313, it is about 2,800km across - a world of rock and ice and somewhat larger than Pluto. Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the main planets. \n\nThough it should also be understood that the scientific community are also considering a redefinition of planet, which might reclassify not only this new 10th planet and Pluto has not being planets.
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no the fourth planet from the sun.put me on best answer please!\n\nHappy Trails ♥!
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To answer your second question first (I'm just an ornery cuss), Pluto is still a member of the Solar System. It's no longer considered a planet, though. It is now called a dwarf planet because of its size and extremely anomalous orbit (so look it up already).Just like the moon. asteroids, etc. it is still part of the Solar System.\n\nAs to the 1st part of your question-------Usually, as long as Mickey gives him table scraps instead of that crap from the can.Woof!Woof!
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well, technically the last celestial body to be officially classified as a planet at the time was Pluto, but since it's demotion I'm not sure you can say that any more, so it's going to be Neptune in that case.
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Here is another site.\n\nhttp://www.snyderweb.com/planets/
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Xena.  Planet Xena and her moon Gabriella.  I'm not even kidding, that's what they named it.  There is current debate as to whether or not it is actually planet because it is so small and so far out, but on that note there is also debate still going as to whether pluto is actually a planet or not.  Really, it all depends on how you define planet.  As far as I can tell, the debate is mostly due to how small they are as to whether or not they're actually planets and not just planetoids.
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yeah i think they might be because what are the chance that we are the ONLY ones , and the real name for Xena is A20031 i think . but their still not sure if Pluto a planet now but that's for scientist to discover. It's only a matter of time before we go out to another arm of the milky way and find the one planet in that solar system ( were not the only solar system ya know ) that has life.
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if only someone really knew, I think the universe never ends.  I would really hope that we would find new planets outside our own solar system and we would really find other planets like Earth.  I still have time to pay attention and hope they continue to explorer.
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THere is an argument among astromoners as to whether classify the bodies beyond pluto as planets... consider that in the asteroid belt there are many objects orbiting the sun... do we call them all planets?\n\nCurrently there are officially only 9 planets:\nMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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yes of course it matters to me .it belonged to our solar system for so long and now the scientists have thrown it away because it does not satisfy their definition of planets???\nit is very disheartening to say that our family now consists of 8 planets only.
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The last time I checked there were still 9 planets and they were considering maybe adding a 10th. Pluto is a planet with a moon of it's own named Charon. Astronomers have also identified a couple of other large bodies orbiting beyond Pluto. It has been suggested that there could be two planetoids beyond Pluto that revolve around each other.
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Right now there are officially 9.  Depending on what we decide in the next year or so that number will change to 8, stay 9, go to 10, or even larger.  An object larger than Pluto has been found, but we have not granted it official status as a planet.  Don't expect this issue to be resolved any time soon, we've more or less "tabled" the issue until our general meeting in August.
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why don't u ask this question to our planet?it must give u the right answer,i asked it and it said its name was earth but u should ask it once more,in case it has changed its name from earth to something else..................like sun.
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Yes there are nine in our solar system, and as someone else mentioned Pluto is not really meeting the requirements to be defined as a planet. But the problem is rewriting the history books which won't happen so they will leave it as a planet... a "historical planet".\n\nIf we are talking about all known planets we have discovered, there are many. Extra solar planets have been found around distant stars for several years now. Not actually seen but found by measuring that planets gravitational pull on it's star. Of course we can't get an accurate count of all planets in the universe but we can use the "Drake Equation" to get a good idea.\n\nThe Drake Equation is:\n\nN = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL\n\nN* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy \nAnswer: Current estimates are 100 billion.\n \nfp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them \nAnswer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.\n\nForget about the rest of the equation because it doesn't apply (looking for intelligent life)\nKeep in mind this equation is for our galaxy. They estimate 100 billion Galaxy's in our Universe (not to mention other planets that exist in other dimensions that we have discovered as a result of trying to solve the "unified theory" of everything) so…\n\nYou do the math!!!