Looks like our solar system is larger than we thought.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ew_planet.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ge_object.html

 

Well, that's everyones horoscope buggered up

Wonder how the Astrologers will try and explain this one away

 

looks like texas is still bigest :-p

 

eh, pluto is only still called a 'planet' because it has been for so long. When in fact it is simply the largest of a group of things out there called the "Edgeworth-Kuiper" objects. For many many years, pluto was simply the only one of these things we knew about. If Pluto was discovered in 2000 instead of the 30's, no way in a million years would anyone have called it a major planet, simply a big Kuiper belt object.

Then again, there is really no hard criteria for what distinguishes a minor planet from a major planet. Having a moon means nothing; there are a few asteroids that have 'moons'; Neither Mercury nor Venus have any. If we weren't hit by an object the size of mars millions of years ago, we would not have one either. The main criteria that is commonly used in the scientific world is how they were formed in the early solar system.

 

The Solar System is not getting larger.
In fact, I do not consider Neptune or Pluto to be planets.

The Solar System is no larger than Uranus.

 

Is that directed to some one in particular?

 

You know, it could be that the solar system is not getting larger . . . but rather WE ARE GETTING SMALLER !!!!!

 

I think Horton just heard a Who.

 

No, I'm just against astronomy in all it's forms.
Once we spotted Uranus in the sky we should have had sense enough to stop looking.
And don't get me started on the Space Program.
Do you really want Earth to aim rockets at Uranus?
Do you want spacemen crawling around on Uranus collecting samples?
Do you?
I think not.

 

Only if they're looking for Klingons...

 

The solar system is growing which causing friction and thus the reason for global warming…


Does space gas come from Uranus?

 

From the show Futurama:

<Fry (looking through a telescope)> Hey, I can see Uranus! (laughs)

<Farnsworth> No, we changed the name of that planet several hundred years ago because people were tired of all the off-color jokes.

<Fry> What's it called now?

<Farnsworth> Urectum.

I still laugh at that when I think about it.

-Fatz