Could there actually be twelve planets including the {SUN}???

Question

duh, i know the sun is a star, however, the sun must be included in the solor system in order for each planet to be counted as part of an elaborate picture of an expected event to take its course. So now, do you idiots understand my question?

Answer 1

You hit the entire crux of the demotion of Pluto.

There are more than 9 planets orbiting the sun, but what is a limit. Pluto is a dwarf planet, but that is still a planet. The problem is that a lot of other Kiper Belt objects would also fill the description of a dwarf planet.

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is considered to be the remains of another planet that was destroyed by the gravity tugs of Jupiter and the sun, Sol. This is the same effect that created the rings around Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus. The problem is that an asteroid Ceres could be considered a planet by the new definition of a dwarf planet, so Pluto had to get demoted.

However, I will always say that there are 9 traditional planets orbiting the sun. Pluto is important enough that the New Horizons Probe is being sent there to check it out.

I didn’t think you considered the Sun a planet, that is such a simple and basic error that anyone who poses a question like yours knows that the planets all revolve around the sun. You wanted to specific our sun. Sol, so you wouldn’t get answers about the some 200 other planets discovered around other suns.

Yes, there are 12 planets, at least; probably more. We haven’t found all the items in the Kiper Belt yet and there could be others. It is hard to find out. It took years of observation to find Pluto through gravitational disturbance of the other planets. That is the traditional way to discover a planet so there are a lot of reasons to keep Pluto among the traditional planets. However, you won’t find it in the New York Planetarium. Its director never considered Pluto a planet, it wasn’t different enough from the other objects in the Kiper Belt so he only has 8 planets on display.

Answer 2

No there isn't twelve planets, first of all the Sun is a star, then from the Sun out you have Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,and use to be Pluto, until they down graded it.

Answer 3

The sun is not a planet. It is a star. Currently there are only 8 planets that are known in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There are however countless planetoids in our solar system such as Pluto, Kuiper Belt objects, the asteroid belt, etc.

Answer 4

The Sun is not a planet. It's a star!

Answer 5

The sun is a star, not a planet.

Answer 6

Suns not a planet, its has fusion at its core and not in orbit of a body with fusion at its core. Acording to the new definitions of a planet( a body that does not have fusion at its core, in orbit around a body with fusion at its core, large enogh to be round by gravity, and the dominate object in its orbit) There are but 8 known.

Answer 7

you cannot include the sun,it is in no way,shape,or form a planet.It is doubtful any planets remain to be discovered in our solar system.Our sun is a very observed and studied star.Any planet of significant mass would produce a wobble in the suns' orbit and be detected

Answer 8

No. The sun is a star.

Answer 9

remember, the sun is not a planet, it's a star. and Pluto has recently been downgraded from planet status and should no longer be counted.

Answer 10

there are billions upon billions of planets out there.
check out the pic and understand that most of these stars have planets as well.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Milky_Way_IR_Spitzer.jpg
and thats only about 1/20th of our night sky