People have been searching for "Planet X" for a long time. The pity about demoting Pluto is that the "X" could have stood for 10. (And, yeah, I'm among those grumpy about Pluto's demotion. I accept the new definition but still think Pluto should have been grandfathered.)
Getting to discover a planet is just too tempting a prospect for many astronomers! I'm fairly skeptical they will find anything, and if they do it will probably be extremely far away anyway. But yeah, its a shame Planet X doesn't work quite as well as it used too.
People have been searching for "Planet X" for a long time. The pity about demoting Pluto is that the "X" could have stood for 10. (And, yeah, I'm among those grumpy about Pluto's demotion. I accept the new definition but still think Pluto should have been grandfathered.)
Getting to discover a planet is just too tempting a prospect for many astronomers! I'm fairly skeptical they will find anything, and if they do it will probably be extremely far away anyway. But yeah, its a shame Planet X doesn't work quite as well as it used too.
Yeah. And it sounds like something from a 1950s SF movie.
I sure would love to see a video of a helicopter flying through that giant canyon on Mars, though.