The "tenth planet" is discovered

I love how this has nothing to do with anything. It's the perfect example of why YEC will be dead within 10 years. It's like you guys have gotten so used to pounding the dogma into your heads that the rhetoric itself serves as the bridge between science and the completely disconnected accusations of the YEC movement.

Just keep repeating to yourself, "Anything but the actual evidence, anything but the actual evidence".

 

There's been speculation about there being a possible 10th planet for a while now, since the mathematical equations involving the planetary gravitational pulls have suggested that an additional planet-object's gravity comes itno play. They just didn't know where.

On a sidenote, if this discovery is indeed agreed upon by everyone to be a 10th planet, does anyone have suggestions for names? Aside from Earth (Sol III), all other planets have names of Roman gods. I kinda like Minerva (goddess of wisdom), Apollo (god of music), or Ceres (goddess of agreculture).

 

Fun. Can't get you to finish any of the ongoing debates or to support all the assertion and claims you make, but we can always count on a new piece of spam from AIG a few times a month.

"TNOs in general have been quite different from what secular astronomers were expecting. They are far more massive than the comet nuclei that were predicted to lie in the "Kuiper Belt." Of course, 2003 UB313 sets the new record for TNO size, being almost as large as the moon. Moreover, a surprising number of TNOs are binary; they consist of two components that orbit each other as the pair orbits the sun."

Is this supposed to be an attack of the sort that tries to paint scientists as always getting it wrong? Laughable! Alan Stern, one of the investigators who actually does this work, predicted some time ago that there are at least a thousand Pluto sized objects, some Mars sized objects and possibly some Earth sized objects. Finding large bodies in this area is not surprising.

In addition, there are not yet telescopes with the necessary resolving power to detect the numerous small objects that are expected to be found. But based on what we know about comets in our own solar system and what we have observed concerning newly formed planetary systems around other stars, they are very likely there.

And why do you think the binary aspect is surprising? Most of the planets are known to have moons. We have observed asteroids with moons. The largest KBO, Pluto, has long been known to have a moon. The last large KBO announced before this one was discovered with its moon.

"Such unusual orbital properties must seem a bit surprising to secular astronomers who believe the solar system collapsed from a cloud of gas and dust. In fact, the expectation that planets must lie in the ecliptic may explain why this “tenth planet” was not discovered previously; no one was looking there!"

Well you did get one part right. No one has been looking there.

Now they have not been looking there because objects are more likely to be found in the ecliptic and looking there greatly reduces the area to be searched. On the other hand, we have known for quite a while that Pluto is rather inclined and theory suggests that the most distant objects may form more of a shell around the sun than a plane. So, again, I question your assertion that finding a very distant object in a highly inclined orbit is surprising.

"But such amazing worlds as the distant 2003 UB313 are consistent with the creative power of God."

You say the every discovery is consistent with your version of creation. Of course it is! YOu will not allow yourself to get tied down to any facts. You have no theory of what we should find. YOu have no ability to make predictions. We cannot say that such and such will be found while such and such will not be. YOu just accept everything after the fact and ignore the obvious implications of the actual data.

Why don't you try wading into Paul's thread on predictions?

 

None of those are roman deities. The others are Roman. But if you want a women name, I vote for Ceres, the Roman goddess of the fields (agriculture).

 

Except that Ceres is the name of the largest asteroid between Mars & Jupiter.

 

How about Maia, the Roman goddess of growth, since the known scope of our solar system has just grown.

 

Hecate. The dark goddess and protector of far off places and crossroads.

 

Juno, Proserpina, Vulcan

I vote for Proserpina.

 

Creationists, of course, will be able to accomodate any set of planets found anywhere. Astronomers were starting to think they should be looking for such bodies and sure enought they found them. But do you know who we should REALLY feel sorry for now that we've got another planet?

The astrologers. Pity the poor astrologers, they have to accomodate this brand new planet into all their horoscopes, they have to make up some kind of story as to what aspect of life it governs, they have to come up with some kind of explanation as to why they hadn't noticed its shadowy unseen influence messing up their horoscopes heretofore . . .

Don't you just feel sorry for them?