was there a new planet found in our solar system?

Answer 1

No...but pluto may be coming back!!!!YEAAAAA!!!
Eris, the largest dwarf planet known, was discovered in an ongoing survey at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope by astronomers Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale University). We officially suggested the name on 6 September 2006, and it was accepted and announced on 13 September 2006. In Greek mythology, Eris is the goddess of warfare and strife. She stirs up jealousy and envy to cause fighting and anger among men. At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the parents of the Greek hero Achilles, all the gods with the exception of Eris were invited, and, enraged at her exclusion, she spitefully caused a quarrel among the goddesses that led to the Trojan war. In the astronomical world, Eris stirred up a great deal of trouble among the international astronomical community when the question of its proper designation led to a raucous meeting of the IAU in Prague. At the end of the conference, IAU members voted to demote Pluto and Eris to dwarf-planet status, leaving the solar system with only eight planets.
See only 8 planets!!!

Answer 2

In my opinion yes it is called Sedna. There is another called Xena as well. There is also a body in the asteroid belt that should be a planet called Ceres (discovered in 1840.)
However these and Pluto have all been reclassified as "dwarf-planets" a term decided on by the astronomical union. Or at least 400 out of 10,000 of them earlier this year. They are scared tha there couild be over 100 small planets out in the solar system.

There is already a movement to change this definition.

Answer 3

one reason pluto was reclassified as a 'dwarf planet' instead of a regular 'planet' was because there are more 'dwarf planets' out there,
but whatever they are, they are real far away and also small

Answer 4

Eris. It is a new dwarf planet beyond Pluto.

Here's more: http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/science/15xenacnd.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=2af66f23Q2FQ2BQ2ASJQ2BTkQ5Cumkk8Q7BQ2BQ7BQ7EQ7EUQ2BQ7E7Q2BQ5EQ2FQ2BuQ5CRSzQ5CSQ2BQ5EVZSz1Q5CzT(B8Fc

Answer 5

Yes, but I don't think it has been formally named yet.

Answer 6

yup, Eris and Xena.

Answer 7

yep

Answer 8

ithink that they found something but dont what it is:)