[LM_NET] HIT: New 9th planet and my experiences today

["Adame, Shiloh" <shiloh.adame@D300.ORG>]

Okay now that I have more time I will explain..... I was walking to the bathroom in 
between classes. A teacher who was in the middle of lecturing AND has a parent 
standing in the doorway starts flagging me down. I hear her say. “There’s the 
person we need, she will know” She then asks “what is the name of the ninth 
planet”. I say  “I didn’t know there was a ninth planet” She is pretty adamant 
saying yes there is a new one she just doesn’t know the name. I now feel horrible. 
It was my chance to shine, a parent is standing there, 27 shinning faces are 
staring at me and nothing. I have no clue.  So I say to the kids “I promise I will 
email your teacher the answer soon”. I now have kids coming in for class and have 3 
min. to sign in to email and ask you wonderful people. I did a very quick google 
search because unfortunately it’s the first thing I thought of. Bad librarian. I 
know. I caved under pressure. As an LM-netter pointed out in the hit it really does 
prove the usefulness of google. But I am happy to say I now have a real world 
example to use with students when telling them the evils of google. (Don’t worry I 
don’t really think google is evil and know that is useful when used right for the 
right purpose) That’s my failed moment for today. I guess I am still greener than I 
thought. I did have that class later this morning and was able to tell them what I 
learned from your responses!!I would like to say thanks to all those that help me 
out. I learn so much from my queries and from reading other hits.

It seems that there is a newer dwarf planet. I also read there is a group that is 
working on overturning the Pluto decision. And the NASA website does not list any 
new planets. NASA oh my. You would think a librarian would have checked there with 
3 min. instead of google……..

THE HIT

I found this info: a dwarf planet called ERIS but the article didn't really
call lit our new 9th planet.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/newplanet-072905-images.html

It later received a name: Eris:
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

here's a link to all the planets from NASA:

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/planets.html

maybe one of the dwarf planets is what your teacher is talking about

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/28/planet-solar-system.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html

http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/summer97/planet.html.

Hope you won't be disappointed... Pluto.

The details are here:
<http://indihot.com/news/pluto-to-be-recognized-as-%E2%80%98planet%E2%80%99.html>

THAT truly illustrated the usefulness of google...

Here are links to the NASA site:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060918.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070619.html
Link to resource page about other dwarf planets:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?eris

We have a new book, c2008, called "11 Planets: a new view of the solar system" by 
David A. Aguilar and published by National Geographic.

The planets are listed as:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres/Asteroid Belt - Ceres was discovered in 1801, classified as the 5th planet, 
then reclassified as an asteroid in 1850. In 2006, it was classified as a dwarf 
planet. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto  - In 2006, Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet
Eris/Kuiper Belt - Eris is also considered a dwarf planet, and is larger than 
Pluto. According to the book, there are five Kuiper belt objects that may be added 
to the list of dwarf planet

Is it possible she was confused with the new dwarf planet
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-09-21-haumea-planet_N.htm


Shiloh Adame MLIS
CUSD 300
Library Director/Media Specialist/Computer Teacher
Westfield Community School K-8
Lincoln Prairie Elementary K-5
shiloh.adame@d300.org

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