The solar system as we know it may change forever

[Redaktion]

Researchers have made a discovery that could change the solar system as we know it today. And new observations are in store to find out more.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-solar-system-as-we-know-it-may-change-forever.1037482.0.html

[ThatRandomJew]

Quick correction:

It's not a star. It's a dwarf planet, it's likely a mistranslation from French, but it's pretty confusing to see the article talking about a new star, which would be highly unlikely

[A]

Quick correction:

It's not a star. It's a dwarf planet, it's likely a mistranslation from French, but it's pretty confusing to see the article talking about a new star, which would be highly unlikely

They are using the other definition of star "a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night", as you can see even in the images it looks like a "star", but they are saying that is a dwarf planet. Or how you would say, see that large star in the sky? That is Jupiter. In that sense.

[Worgarthe]

Nhf to the author(s) here but I think it's time for me to stop visiting and reading anything else past the reviews section because, at this point, this makes no sense anymore. After multiple "Redditor says..." and "new upcoming anime" "news" around here, now we have this. Just a quick check what is NBC:

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[David Devita]

Yawn 🥱... ...

[Pseudomus]

Yes, quite boring. People in no time will forget about this 'dwarf planet' and act like it's just Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Eris, and probably not might include Sedona. That said there's probably 100's of dwarf planets yet no one cares about them

[Pseudomus]

Yes, quite boring. People in no time will forget about this 'dwarf planet' and act like it's just Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Eris, and probably not might include Sedona. That said there's probably 100's of dwarf planets yet no one cares about them

I was supposed to be quoting 'David Devita' sorry.

[KarlG]

The article says the size has been determined to be 700 km (smaller than Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt), then it says it is too soon to tell if it will be a planet.

For reference the Moon is about 2700 km. Pluto is about 2400 km and or its orbit averages about 39.5 AU. Pluto is not a major planet because it hasn't cleared its orbit.

How likely do you think this tiny planetoid, much smaller than Pluto, and many times farther than the sun will actually clear its 25000 year orbit? If it does, it would be a planet.

Good luck with that. It is irresponsible to even suggest that it could be defined as a planet.