Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet

Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet – Yahoo! News

Astronomers announced Friday that they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun. The finding will likely renew debate over what exactly is a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status.

The unnamed object – the farthest-known object in the solar system – is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto’s current distance from the sun. Astronomers do not know its exact size, but its brightness shows that it is at least as large as Pluto and could be up to 1 1/2 times bigger.

Now we just need to find a planet with other life on it -)

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