Monday, March 15, 2004

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza...Supremes?

Scientists have found a tenth object that revolves around our sun and as soon as they can verify the size and composition, it might become the newest planet to our solar system since Pluto's discovery in 1930. The object is currently being referred to as Sedna.
Sedna is three times the distance from Pluto as Pluto is from the Sun which isn't saying much since our observatories aren't on Pluto but it's WAY out there. It's eight billion miles from Earth - Pluto is only about four billion miles from Earth, give or take a few billion. Imagine finding a small planet that far away when you're not even looking for it.