> 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.
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> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/adze
>
According Zecharia Sitchin ( The 12nd Planet ), you have to count Sun and Moon
as planets, too.
The ancient "gods" did that way. The number 12 was considered sacred.
I strongly recommend reading that book.
---Marcelo Puhlmark@plug-in.com.br