Re: tenth planet
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:46 pm
I know there is a lot going on news wise at the moment, but the BBC news, as usual, have hardly given this the prominence it deserves.
Why 'prominence'?
It won't contribute anything of significance to our knowledge of the origin of the Solar System, there are far more important discoveries being made every day in Astrophysics, and it's really just a smallish lump of rock, i.e. a biggish asteroid (many of which have closer orbits).
Pluto was a similar hype-job, although it did demonstrate that smaller objects could be located by predictions based upon perturbation- a technique which is now usefully contributing to the search for extra-Solar planets...........