big puffy,fluffy planet found

[bhk4]

i found this a while ago so i decided to share it with you guys

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/14/ap/tech/mainD8K4MVVO0.shtml


man a big fluffy planet,what will we find next?

 

[simple_clean]

LOL, yes indeed, what will we find next?

 

[Josiah]

o_0; ...This is the most interesting news I've heard all day T_T; ...I Don't quite Get it either >.>;; ...I mean, A Cottonball planet???! o.0;

 

[Honky Sam]

Next, we shall find, a planet the size of a million jupiters xDDD

 

[Josiah]

XD!... I bet Aliens live on this Planet >.>;; ...Maybe Kirby =O

 

[Royale]

I think that's where we get all of our cotton.

 

[bhk4]

Next, we shall find, a planet the size of a million jupiters xDDD

well...we are finding planets way bigger then jupiter so.....yeah

 

[Lost Memories]

I wonder what this new planet tastes like?
I wonder what it's made out of?

 

[bhk4]

I wonder what this new planet tastes like?
I wonder what it's made out of?

well we cant eat it,and we still dont know what it is and its not gas either and its so dense it can float on WATER!

 

[Savior of Dawn]

Le gaspeh! We discovered the Care Bear's homeworld! : 0

Ah, planets. Fascinating little sphere-like things.

 

[Chaotic_Countess]

Just as long as we don't find a mime planet, or a clown planet I'm fine.

 

[Iwrestledabearonce]

Sounds fluffy... <.< Next Planet We Find - PokePlanet! z()MG POKEMON!!

Seriously though, who'da thunk it? (yes, I said "thunk", not "think".) A planet bigger than Jupiter, and it floats on water. *throws water at the planet* HA, TAKE THAT.

And it's name SUCKS. HAT-P-1. OMFG NAME CHANGE FTW. GET 1000 POSTS PLANET!11

 

[Masamune]

well i guess we will find many more planets in the future...

 

[Shamdeo]

"'This new planet, if you could imagine putting it in a cosmic water glass, it would float,' said Robert Noyes, a research astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory."

As would Saturn.

 

[Joe]

well thats common knowledge Sham, this being a new planet and being able to float is quite interesting

 

[Shamdeo]

well thats common knowledge Sham, this being a new planet and being able to float is quite interesting

Just stating the obvious then; it hadn't been brought up before. o_o;

 

[Josiah]

o_0;; ...Saturn would float on Water, Also???! =/ Oi Vay >.>;; ...The things you learn every Day T.T;;

 

[Ulti]

Bet you five bucks its cotton candy.

Anyways, this is interesting. Planet Puffy. But they are sure its a planet this time right?<<

 

[Shamdeo]

Bet you five bucks its cotton candy.

Anyways, this is interesting. Planet Puffy. But they are sure its a planet this time right?<<

Bet you ten it's a liquid metallic hydrogen layer above that, and a gaseous molecular hydrogen layer above that. :3

Interestingly enough, despite the publicity, the IAU put out a new classification system for objects in our universe. They reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. One category of three.

Planets:
~ Mercury
~ Venus
~ Earth
~ Mars
~ Jupiter
~ Saturn
~ Uranus
~ Neptune

Dwarf Planets:
~ Ceres
~ Pluto
~ Eris

SSSB's (Small solar system body):
~ Many, many. xD

Oh, and one more thing. There's a program on the web that allows you to navigate the known charted places in the galaxy. It's called Celestia, and I found it to be very fun to navigate. Honestly, it's easy to see why the consider astronomy such a humbling study. Here's the link to the Celestia website, where you can download the program: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

 

[Phoenix]

Thing is, our new definition for planet applies only to our solar system. The matter of extrasolar planets hasn't been touched yet.