Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Batterige, or whoever it is’s, law of headlines ig

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Betterige is correct.

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    • deezbutts@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Godwin

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• KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BAH GOD IT’S PLUTO WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

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• original_reader@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are we going to name it when it is found?

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If Mike Brown finds it, he’ll jump all over naming it, and I’m sure that’s part of his motivation for hunting it so doggedly. Super nice guy, but he’s a glory hound like that.

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  • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they should call it Nibiru to feed the conspiracy theories.

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    • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had a roomate ten years ago who seriously believed in all that crap. Lizard people from the edge of the solar system here to claim our gold.

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  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    pluto was called planet X until it was discovered

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    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s call this one Planet Twitter, just to annoy Elon.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With two exceptions*, the names are from Roman mythology. So I’d expect the new planet to get a definitive name from the same template. (Please be Janus. It’s the gate of the solar system!)

    *Uranus is from Greek mythology, with no good Latin equivalent. Terra is trickier; you could argue that it fits the template for Latin and the Romance languages, but most others simply use local words for soil, without a connection to the goddess. That is also called Tellus to add confusion.

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    • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tellus would be a cool name for a planet, imo.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It will likely be a Greek or Roman name in keeping with tradition. The IAU generally let’s the person/group that discovers have an influence in the decision but they’re the final say on the name.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Planet Nine from Outer Space

  . . . I’ll show myself out

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pluto 2 electric boogaloo

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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• Olap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?

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