Can anyone tell me about the tenth planet found?

Question

i want know about the new planet found

Answer 1

All i know is that its called Planet X for now.

Answer 2

Its An Object Which is LARGER (Not Smaller) Than Pluto. It is contreversial whether it is a planet or whether it is just another object in the Kupiter Belt. It is so far away that the Sun would appear just as a Very Bright star. Pluto Is being questioned now as wether it should have been classified as a planet. But because it was found A long time ago - And it was the first thing discovered in a while - It was rushed as being claimed as a planet. Anyway Hope this was good for you!
Dave.

Answer 3

The tenth "planet" found isn't actually a planet. It happens to be a Kiper Belt object that's part of the Kiper belt beyond pluto. The Kiper Belt is similar to the asteroid belts, but the objects have a comet like composition (ie. composed of solidified gases). What is now classified by the media as the "tenth planet" is just an unusually massive object from the Kiper Belt system.

Answer 4

Many items have been mistaken for planets, and astrophysical theory has been wrong at points. Einstein once theorized there was another planet between Mercury and the Sun, to explain irregularities in Mecury's orbit. It was even given the name "Vulcan" in honor of the Roman god of technology. It was later discovered that the sun iteself was causing the phenomona with Mecury's orbit.

Many asteriods in the asteroid belt have been mistaken for planets further away.

There is an orbiting body between Saturn and Uranus, about 800 miles in diameter (compared to pluto's 1200) called "Chiron", named after the mytholgical archer. The status of this orbital body is still debated among scientists to this very day.

There are plenty of planet sized and shaped objects beyond Neptune's orbit, known to astronomers as Kuiper-Belt Objects. The largest KBE known is called Quaorar (may have spelled it wrong), but it is believed to be larger than pluto.

As far as "Planet X" is concerned, this is all I could find out.

Answer 5

Well it may just be the ninth planet as they could take away Pluto's planet status soon.

But if you don't mind where the planet is located, then there have been a total of 177 planets discovered in 97 planetary systems.

Answer 6

A team of astronomers systematically scanning the far reaches of the solar system has discovered a distant, icy world that is bigger than Pluto but so far away the head of a pin held at arm's length would blot out the sun, one of the researchers said today. The discovery, if confirmed, would
force astronomers to re-write their textbooks and give school kids a 10th planet to memorize once a governing body sanctions the still-secret name proposed by a trio of discoverers.
Currently known by the catalog number 2003UB313, the newly discovered planet wheels about in an elliptical orbit tilted some 45 degrees to the plane of the solar system's eight major planets, taking 560 years to complete one trip around the sun.
At its most distant, the planet is a remote 97 times farther from the sun than the Earth. At its closest, it passes inside the orbit of Pluto at a distance of some 36 astronomical units. It is currently the most distant object known in the solar system, so far removed that its surface temperature is a frigid 30 degrees above absolute zero. "It has a surface just like that of Pluto," said Mike Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology. "It's a little bit bigger than Pluto and the main difference, of course, is it's much, much
farther away than Pluto right now, so it's going to be a much colder place
to be. Not a very pleasant place to live, definitely. And life as we know it would certainly not be doing much out there."
The new world was discovered Jan. 8 by Brown, Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz, of Yale University, using the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Mount Palomar. The discoverers were holding off making an announcement until after they
completed their observations, but hackers found the discovery on a private website and the trio decided to go public.
With a surface dominated by methane, the distant world is some 1,700 miles in diameter, compared to about 1,400 miles for Pluto. It is a member of the Kuiper Belt, a broad fan-shaped disk of icy debris extending from the orbit of Neptune to well beyond Pluto. Disturbed by gravitational interactions, primarily involving Jupiter and Saturn, a Kuiper Belt object
can fall into the inner solar system and become captured in a so-called short-period orbit. In the early solar system, gravitational encounters also threw large numbers of comets into a vast, spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud.
Comets that eventually fall back into the inner solar system from the Oort Cloud typically have orbits measured in millions of years.
The newly discovered world is a "very cold, very distant place," Brown told reporters in a teleconference Friday evening. "If you were standing on the surface and you held a pin at arm's length, you could cover the sun with the head of the pin. As I said, it's not a place you'd want to go for a
summer vacation. Now, in 280 years, it'll be a lot closer, but it still
won't be much of a vacation spot then, either."
The size of the planet was inferred by observations of its brightness. "Even if it reflected 100 percent of the light reaching it, it would still be as big as Pluto," Brown said in an earlier statement. "I'd say it's probably one and a half times the size of Pluto, but we're not sure yet of
the final size."
Talking to reporters, he said a name has been submitted to the
International Astronomical Union and "I don't want to say what it is yet because we really want this name to get accepted and we want to make sure we
go through all the proper channels," Brown said.
The discovery almost surely will re-ignite the debate over what it takes to be defined as a planet. Many astronomers believe Pluto is more accurately
grouped with other Kuiper Belt objects and should not be considered a planet in the traditional sense. The debate has even made it into the lyrics of
popular song, "Planet X" by Christine Lavin
(http://www.christinelavin.com/planetx.html).
"Even I have promoted the idea that we should consider Pluto not to be a planet and a Kuiper Belt object instead," Brown said. "But historically,
it's been called a planet for such a long time that I think we're never going to not call Pluto a planet. And that's fine. I think historically, we
can call it a planet."
But if Pluto is, in fact, a planet, "then anything larger than Pluto - I
think we should draw the line there - anything larger than Pluto is a planet. Things that are smaller, I think we just call them typical members of the Kuiper Belt and they don't join this very special class of things
that are planets."

Answer 7

First, it is NOT smaller than Pluto. It's quite larger, beyond Pluto located in the Kuiper belt. And that question seems to remain. Defining a planet.

Answer 8

It's speculative wether Pluto should even be considered a planet, due to it's small size, distance from the sun and it's extremely eccentric orbit. What you are referring to is likely just another named Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt object.

Answer 9

It's causing a bit of controversy as to if it should be considered a planet, I know that. Yep, it's smaller than Pluto apparently.

Speaking of Pluto, I also heard that they found moons around it.

Answer 10

It is not really a planet. Rather it is a distant moon belonging to the ninth planet - Pluto.