There is now 9 planets in our solar system.

[Siren]

You can guarantee that one of the most important qualities in prospective astronauts for long-haul missions, like Mars, will be their personality and disposition.

When it comes down to it, there will likely be instances where lesser scientists are chosen because they're just more capable of getting on with their colleagues.

I would think being on loving mars and doing mars stuff would provide enough excitement in itself, plus you could always just download space movies at like 0.0001mb/s

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[WaterOre]

I would think being on loving mars and doing mars stuff would provide enough excitement in itself, plus you could always just download space movies at like 0.0001mb/s

You'd also have to deal with hunger, lack of modern conveniences, and the fact that the nearest members of your species are literally millions of miles away.

[Jubel]

the fact that the nearest members of your species are literally millions of miles away.

good
i wont have to help them move

[Siren]

You'd also have to deal with hunger, lack of modern conveniences, and the fact that the nearest members of your species are literally millions of miles away.

I'd do it easily

[Bisjac]

Isnt it like... Not technically in the solar system at all?
It makes a short, wide turn visit, then leaves since its busy rotating in its own system.

[gr8dayseth]

Isnt it like... Not technically in the solar system at all?
It makes a short, wide turn visit, then leaves since its busy rotating in its own system.

doesn't the solar system include anything that orbits the sun at all though?

[sir dooble]

Isnt it like... Not technically in the solar system at all?
It makes a short, wide turn visit, then leaves since its busy rotating in its own system.

Depends on your definition of where the solar system ends.
Here's a model of the solar system.


Neptune, the farthest out major planet, is 30 AU out from the sun (30 times further from the sun than the Earth is).
Pluto, is 30-50AU out from the sun, depending on it's location in it's orbit. Pluto sits in the Kuiper belt, an Asteroid field.

Planet 9 is estimated to be roughly 600 AU out from the sun.
However, the Oort cloud, which is a sea of matter, where most of our comets come from, ranges from 1000 to 100,000 AU out.

By most definitons the Solar System definitively ends at the end of the Oort cloud, if not earlier.
More conservative definitons define the Solar System as ending at the edge of the Kuiper belt.

So, Planet 9 is potentially part of the Solar System (it's certainly significantly closer to our star than any other), but by other definitions, it's just too far out.

[Moppy]

Leave it to the guy with the Metal Slug styled UFO in his avatar to know the most about space.

[Bisjac]

doesn't the solar system include anything that orbits the sun at all though?

Yes. But this planet dosnt orbit our sun. It seems to orbit another and just makes a very very wide rotation and falls close to ours temporarily?

[Lord Tony®]

Yes. But this planet dosnt orbit our sun. It seems to orbit another and just makes a very very wide rotation and falls close to ours temporarily?

That's incredibly dangerous. It could eventually break its path from its original orbit and join our orbit possibly messing up the order of rotation.

[Jubel]

Yes. But this planet dosnt orbit our sun. It seems to orbit another and just makes a very very wide rotation and falls close to ours temporarily?

The chances that this theorized planet is orbiting Proxima Centauri which is 4.24 light years away (or 268142 AU) is none. Proxima is the closest star to us, and even if the planet was orbiting Proxima at such a far distance, another star within a couple light years could capture it easily, as at that distance the force of gravity is so weak from Proxima due to it's extremely low mass, and the distance from said star.

If it's within the start of the Oort cloud, it is orbiting our sun, no ifs ands or buts.

It could eventually break its path from its original orbit and join our orbit possibly messing up the order of rotation.

No it wont.

[e-maxx]

That's incredibly dangerous. It could eventually break its path from its original orbit and join our orbit possibly messing up the order of rotation.

[sir dooble]

Yes. But this planet dosnt orbit our sun. It seems to orbit another and just makes a very very wide rotation and falls close to ours temporarily?

No, if it exists, it most definitely orbits our sun.
It's got a large and very slow elliptical orbit (like Pluto), that suggests it can be anywhere from 200AU to 1000AU (averaging 600AU).

At any rate it is firmly within the Oort cloud's outer-edge, and therefore it orbits the sun.

That's incredibly dangerous. It could eventually break its path from its original orbit and join our orbit possibly messing up the order of rotation.

That doesn't make sense in the slightest, even if it was orbiting a different star.

Consider thinking for a change.

[Space1255]

That's incredibly dangerous. It could eventually break its path from its original orbit and join our orbit possibly messing up the order of rotation.

Pffffffff
You really are this stupid?

[Frequency]

he's not this stupid. he had to replace brony-hating activities with something.