Am Dienstag, 16. M=E4rz 2004 01:42 schrieben Sie: > That's funny... > Does somebody knows the TV-cast ALF?? > Once the youngest child of the tenners had to do a project for school, he > designed a model of the solar system and ALF, the little alien, adviced t= he > young tenner to buil the model with a nineth planet that he saw when he > approached the solar system... > The boy got a bad mark for his solar system because of incorrectness... b= ut > now we know better ;-)) > Ups, meant 10th planet, I forgot Uranus... damn. > > "Planet" Sedna > > 900 times further from the Sun than Earth > > > > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D13841 > > > > At 3/4 the size of Pluto, if you count Pluto as a planet you (arguably) > > have to count Sedna as one as well. > > > > ____________ > > > > 10,000 year year. > > 13 billion kilometres (8 billion miles) away. > > After Mars, it is the second reddest object in the solar system. > > Estimated Sedna is approximately three-fourths the size of Pluto. > > Sedna is likely the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto > > was discovered in 1930. > > Found Nov. 14, 2003. > > At its most distant, Sedna is 130 billion kilometres (84 billion miles) > > from the Sun, which is 900 times Earth's solar distance. > > > > Scientists used the fact that even the Spitzer telescope was unable to > > detect the heat of the extremely distant, cold object to determine it > > must be less than 1,700 kilometres (about 1,000 miles) in diameter, whi= ch > > is smaller than Pluto. By combining available data, Brown estimated > > Sedna's size at about halfway between Pluto and Quaoar, the planetoid > > discovered by the same team in 2002. > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body