according to QI the other night,it's not even a planet.
so confusing
(so confusing
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 22:30,
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Technically that is correctThey now know it is just a big rock and that there are more of them.
They can't declassify it as all the rhymes we learnt at school for the order would fail.*
*may be a little bit false.
(They can't declassify it as all the rhymes we learnt at school for the order would fail.*
*may be a little bit false.
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 22:36,
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 22:37,
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 22:41,
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Thatis correct. If you count it's moon (which is approx. the same size as it) it's a double planet system, with its rotational axis more or less at the Lagrange point.
Otherwise, it's a lump of rock (a planetoid, maybe. Not quite a plant, but in the wrong place to be an asteroid and it's not quite a comet.)
And Sedna, don't get me started on that. If Pluto doesn't count, and Sedna's half the size of that...
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Is QI on again? If so, what channel and when? And is it available up here in the land of the Scots?
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 22:52,
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Otherwise, it's a lump of rock (a planetoid, maybe. Not quite a plant, but in the wrong place to be an asteroid and it's not quite a comet.)
And Sedna, don't get me started on that. If Pluto doesn't count, and Sedna's half the size of that...
[/astrophysicsy rant]
Is QI on again? If so, what channel and when? And is it available up here in the land of the Scots?