11 Planets of our Solar System

[Zeus_Hunt]

Nine Planets in Comparison Jupiter (top left), Saturn(top right), Uranus (middle left), Neptune(middle right), Earth(bottom left), Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Moon

Sun compared with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Moon

Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Moon

Tenth planet Sedna – It is so far that the Sun is seen just as a bright star which is 8 billion miles away.

A new planetoid has been found circling the Sun more than one and a half billion kilometres beyond Pluto. So is this the 11th Planet ?

[nsane]

so Sedna would be the 'Planet X' from 5-10 years ago? it's cool they found another one tho :)

[erRor67]

I like the comparisions. Really puts things in perspective.

[Rudeboy2025]

I think the 11th planet is called Xena.

[Lite]

But Pluto (and perhaps sedna and no11) are not true planets. Perhaps they are large astroids which not cuaght up in the suns gravitional pull.

There orbits are very different to the rest of the planets.

[nsane]

just means they're a little different, there's plenty of other facts that would suggest otherwise. like the fact that they're perfectly round, like other planets, where as asteroids are usually big chunky broken up lookin chunks of a planet ;)

@rudeboy - the name of the 11th planet is "Quaoar", it's written on the picture. plus, xena sounds like something someone dubbed planet-x until it was officially named :P

[Lite]

But theres even more evidence that suggests otherwise. Lots more objects similar in shape to Pluto have been found in an astrioid belt past neptune. These objects are LARGER than pluto.

There is also a TINY planet (like 500miles accross) between Jupiter + Mars but isn't classed as such as astromemers think size matters (then why is the tiny pluto still classed?). Hypocrytes....

Senda + Quaoar are both larger than Pluto.

[apcmiller]

If I remember correctly the classification of planet has a few requirements:

One has to do with the planets rotation around the sun

One has to do with mass (pluto is pretty solid)

and One has to do with it having to have an atmosphere

Jupiter has moons bigger than pluto but they orbit around jupiter, not the sun, and have no atmosphere.

[vin3e]

Lite always has to spoil the mood. ¬¬

[Chicano666]

Lite always has to spoil the mood. ¬¬

:P

[Rudeboy2025]

just means they're a little different, there's plenty of other facts that would suggest otherwise. like the fact that they're perfectly round, like other planets, where as asteroids are usually big chunky broken up lookin chunks of a planet ;)

@rudeboy - the name of the 11th planet is "Quaoar", it's written on the picture. plus, xena sounds like something someone dubbed planet-x until it was officially named :P

I replied before the pics had fully loaded. Sounds like a shitty name. Quaoar... ;)