woodchurch science

so there’s a meeting today to decide if our 9th planet is to be downgraded, deleted or left where it is. apparently a bigger lump of rock, though equally far away is up for recognition as a planet with the catchy name of 2003UB313 (it has been nicknamed xena, of warrior princess fame). caltech’s mike brown has a really interesting and easy to understand website about it’s discovery.
if pluto does disappear from the 9, then it’s going to be interesting trying to come up with a mnemonic for our solar system: my very easy method just speeds up naming xena? doesn’t quite work now does it?

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