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What is the ninth planet of our solar system? Explain.

First player to correctly answer gets to choose which loser wins the 20k plus the entry fees. :)

pluto?

<<maulaxe (stIckSlayer) 140.160.138.213 Max (Bank) $5000 -- contest entry fee 4:26 PM EDT>>

this depends on what you are using as definition for a planet : p

i'll say that some asteroid is the ninth planet, here is why:
* someday, it would be really sweet if I could own my own planet
* it's not very likely that i'll be able to own one of those 'bigguns
* therefore, I define planets as "space stuff"
* more planets are better!

I win! ...right?

30k Grand Prize so far....

Our solar system consists of a central Sun, which is orbited by nine planets (and their moons), an asteroid belt, many comets and meteors, plus gas and microscopic dust.

The Sun is a medium-sized star. It is orbited by the following (in order from the Sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The first four planets (Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars) are small, rocky planets. After the orbiting belt of small rocky/metallic asteroids are four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). The ninth planet is Pluto, a small, rocky planet.... my explanation

Pot is now 35k :)

Methinks somebody didn't read the rules too thoroughly..

First player to correctly answer gets to choose which loser wins the 20k plus the entry fees. :)

or maybe they did ... ; )

The answer is Neptune. Because Neptune and Pluto switch back and forth through out the years. So it is classified as the 8th but many times is the 9th.

Bast (Bartlett) to Max (Bank) $5000 -- Planetarium 4:40 PM EDT

What is the ninth planet of our solar system? Explain

Due to my divine solipsism, I have to answer that there is no 9th planet. I am the center of my Universe and I have only 7 revolving satellites. Also the "our" in "our solar system" offends me.

Spaceman, you are so close. Thanks for adding to the pot. :)

Bast, heh, that's all I can say...

What do you mean so close? That is the answer, I'm not called "Spaceman" for nothing!

Still, your answer is wrong. If you wish to modify your answer please remit another 5k to Bank.

Pshhh, use google for what it's good for folks. :)

"Astronomers announced today the discovery of the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930."
--From a National Geographic article about the discovery of the 10th planet, Sedna. :)

I think that means MegamanV wins :-P

Oh wow, you are all still wrong. Some are very close. The ninth planet was named correctly. The explanation was also posted, but, not in the same response. The name of the current ninth planet with an explanation while still following the contest rules is yet to be posted. :P

i'll call my planet pluto-the-second, because when I go and live there i will have it towed into an orbit that will make it the ninth.

uranus was the ninth planet until 1999 when it switch places with pluto, which is currently #9.

Nope and nope.

neptune switched with uranus send the cash to nixon jibfest if i am correct im sending entry now

"Pluto is the ninth, and last, planet from the Sun. Because spacecraft have yet to visit the Pluto/Charon system, we have no pictures of their surfaces.
Pluto is smaller than the Earth's Moon and it orbits so far from the Sun that it is only a bright speck in the strongest telescopes. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the best images of the distant planet, though all those images show are a planet of light and dark contrasts."
-- From www.planetary.org


Therefore, my guess would be Pluto :-D


I really need to read ALL the rules before I do these things :-P

While pluto has been the official ninth planet since 1999 (it was #8 for something like 20 years prior).

I'll go ahead and say that If you include the asteroid belt after mars as a 'planet' then Neptune would be the ninth planet.

Asteroids don't really meet the requirements to be planets. Here comes the science...

"A planet is an object that satisfies both of the following two rules:

* Rule 1: A planet must not be so large that it can support or sustain fusion reactions. A secondary requirement is that a planet must not contain degenerate matter (such as a core of solid neutonium).
* Rule 2: A planet must be large enough to have a shape determined by gravity and not the strength of its material (usually this means it is spherical)."
-- From some dork with too much time on his hands (www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/planetdefn.html)

hehe can anyone tell I'm really bored? :)

I meant to say that Neptune (not uranus) was the ninth planet until 1999 when it switch places with pluto, which is currently #9.

How about this?
Much ado about Pluto

Key Quote: In a press release dated Feb. 3, 1999 the International Astronomical Union stated that "No proposal to change the status of Pluto as the ninth planet in the solar system has been made by any Division, Commission or Working Group of the IAU responsible for solar system science.

So my answer is Pluto, with Nasa doing my explaining.
If I win, send money to Spaceman.

science is overrated. (for this thread anyways)

my planet's flag will be a jolly roger, except with a speech bubble that says "yar, eh?"

Neptune was the ninth planet until 1999 when it switch places with pluto, which is currently #9.

to make my entry complete...
...spaceman wins if i'm right.

Nixon has the complete and correct entry. If you didn't know this cool fact, now you know. Thanks to CB!

Who says games aren't educational?

Max (Bank) 68.70.34.196 Spaceman[ObsessedForger]
(Jigoro Kano) $80000 -- Contest 9:40 PM EDT

darn, i was sure i had that one...

Thanks =D I gave up because while looking to see whether Neptune was in front or not, an Elven Long Sword went through the store I was supposed to be camping. So I never got to repost =P

umm, actually, last i heard, Pluto is not defined as a planet anymore....=X

Wikipedia says sure why not

" In some ways, Pluto is different. It's much smaller than the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and it doesn't fit in with the four gas giant outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). Pluto's diameter is 1, 430 miles, making it less than half the size of any other planet, and only two-thirds as big as Earth's Moon. Pluto's orbit is much more tilted and elliptical than the other planets. Some scientists believe Pluto should not be called a planet at all. They feel it should be put in the same category as Kuiper Disk objects, icy worlds smaller than Pluto that lie in the "same neighborhood" as Pluto and Neptune, and even beyond. These objects may be leftover debris from our solar system's early formation. But Pluto is spherical and it does orbit the Sun. Although this controversy has come up on occasion, Pluto is still classified as a planet." www.Nasa.gov

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