There's Nothing New Under The Sun...

[sandyRoe]

Or in this case there is, two new planets.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/two-more-planets-in-our-solar-system-say-astronomers/ar-AA8lzrq?ocid=mailsignoutmd

[joggerjayne]

How exciting.

Although they sound quite a long way away.

[jno]

they are even remoter than Brighton, though possibly more interesting. I wonder if the calculations they've made have convinced the scientists that they're big enough to be real planets and not just more dwarfs.

[joggerjayne]

More dwarfs? Anticlimax!

[jno]

there would be egg on scientific faces if they turned out to be only as big as Hove.

[joggerjayne]

It sounds like they are about the same age as the population of Hove, actually.

[jno]

lol

[alavahalf]

"Hove actually" ... not many on AB will get that one Jane !

[jno]

I got it

[joggerjayne]

Well spotted, Al.

I thought I'd slipped that one in under the radar!

J x

[joggerjayne]

And jno. x

[jno]

I wasn't literally loling, but I had a nice smile on my face.

[joggerjayne]

Memo: thread is about new planets, not Sussex towns.

#gettingsidetracked

[Old_Geezer]

Don't worry, if we find too many of them then they'll redefine the word "planet". Or get QI to say there are none one week and about 2 million the next.

[joggerjayne]

As it says in the front of the latest QI book ...

"Facts aren't set in stone. Like milk or meat, they have a sell-by date. Mathematician Samuel Arbesman compares facts to Uranium atoms. Individually, their lifespan is unpredictable, but lumped together we can accurately that half the atoms will decay within 4.47 billion years - the so-called 'half-life' of uranium 238. Facts, it turns out, also have a half-life, and most of them don't last nearly as long."

[DTCwordfan]

JoggerJayneus Planet and then the one really way out, Sandyroecury with its six AB moons and eighteen jno rocks. Old Geezer to confirm this.

[DTCwordfan]

Uniformly over the whole AB countryside
The warm chatter flows imperceptibly seaward;
The winter haze drifts in deep bands
Over the pale Brighton water;
White Geezers stand in the blue marshes;
Wendilla, Factor Fiction, Alava
Float in the air.
Climbing on the slopes of Bullock's Hill
We look out over fifty miles of sinuous
Interpenetration of France, La Manche and sea.

Leading up a twisted chimney,
Just as our eyes rise to the level
Of a small cave, two white Danny owls
Fly out, silent, close to Jayne's face.
They hover, confused in the sunlight,
And disappear into the recesses of the cliff.

All day I have been watching a new climber,
A young AB girl, shari perhaps? with deep red hair
And gentle confident eyes.
She climbs slowly, precisely,
With unwasted nox grace.

While we are coiling the Builder's ropes,
Watching the spectacular sandy roe sunset,
She turns to us and says, quietly,
“It must be very beautiful, the sunset,
On JoggerJayneus with the jno rings and all the AB moons.”

[joggerjayne]

Just so clever ^^

[Old_Geezer]

Well, quite interesting :-)