2007-11-04 15:07:56 · 6 answers · asked by M-S 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is no such thing... Sorry to tell you but I've been in Astronomy for 52 years and have been a speaker in celestial findings for as many years... There is no man made planet that exists....
2007-11-04 15:50:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most kind sir:
There is not one single Earth Mover, Bull Dozer, or Steam Shovel large enough to build a planet, much less operate in an atmosphere with no oxygen (diesel engines breathe also).
Were you to have several hundred of the biggest machines made, they would not be great (huge) enough to build a planet. The Earth, for example, is 25,000 Miles in circumference, and not big at all in comparison to some of the other planets. However, most of those really big ones are gas giants, and lack a solid crust.
The octagon shape you refer to is, for sure, a mistake, or
someone has made an error by referring to a satellite as a
planet. Man made satellites could have almost any shape,
triangular, rectangle, square, hexagon, or octagon, sphere, etc. But all of these manmade objects are less than 15 Tons in mass which is just a tiny speck of material in comparison to a "planet."
If you wish to review various satellites you could do a search on the Internet for Satellite Images with great ease...
2007-11-04 19:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have yet to take a single photo of any extrasolar planet. We simply do not have the technology yet. So there are no photos at all of extrasolar planets let alone octagon shaped. And none of the planets in this solarsystem is octagon shaped. Only thing octagon shaped is that cloudformation in Saturns north pole.
2007-11-04 21:42:43 · answer #3 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An octagon-shaped planet - not possible.
Any object massive enough to be a planet has to be spherical - the simple law of physics and gravity.
If NASA had pictures, they would be all over the Internet. Certainly they would be on NASA's official site (nasa.gov).
But nothing that I can find.
I think someone is pulling your leg - you've been misinformed.
2007-11-04 16:20:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you perhaps refering to the hexagonal-shaped feature observed in the clouds at Saturn's north pole?
2007-11-04 22:28:44 · answer #5 · answered by Peter T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i love that phrase "some say"...
but the octagon-shaped planet beats it hands down!
i can think of only this!:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2036/1867295201_d2f39153db_o.jpg
2007-11-04 16:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋