Re: Ferrada Comet/Planet

stenhoj@post6.tele.dk ( (no email) )
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:32:25 +0100

Matthew Redmond wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a little confused. A few people have been talking about a 12th
> planet...What happened to numbers 10 and 11? At last count it was nine...
>
> 1 Mercury
> 2 Venus
> 3 Earth
> 4 Mars
> 5 Jupiter
> 6 Saturn
> 7 Uranus
> 8 Neptune
> 9 Pluto
>
> In which case I believe you might be talking about the as yet undiscovered
> tenth planet which was theorised to exist because of the anomalous effect in
> I think Neptune's orbit. Pluto is not big enough to be the sole cause of
> this effect.
>
> However, it is also thought by some that there was another planet where the
> asteroid belt is now. That would bring the telly up to 11 planets. Still
> one short.
>
> Matthew.
> ---------------------------------
>
> Dear Matthew:

Many of those who claim that there is a 12th planet count on a 2nd asteroid
belt, thereby reaching the mentioned 12 planets

Regards

Niels Stenhoj
stenhoj@post6.tele.dk