A small team of planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Université Côte d'Azur and Southwest Research Institute reports possible new evidence of Planet 9. They have published their paper on the arXiv preprint server, and it has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Back in my day it was called Planet X, god dammit!
Because back in my (our) day Pluto was number, so Planet X worked. Planet VIIII doesn’t look as good.
Uh, you mean “IX”?
That means “Boy who is not able to satisfactorily explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven”. I don’t see how that applies here.
Fair
Still trying to figure out what the hell it is
VIIII is a valid way to write 9, though antiquated. If you look at very old clocks, you’ll see they all use this notation.
Didn’t realize homie was an antiquated clock. (Assumed the usage of Roman numerals, like in the references being made, in which case I don’t believe the clumsy VIIII only used on old clocks would really be valid.)
This made me really laugh. Thought I would let you know 😂
VIIII wasn’t exclusive to clocks, that’s the only long-lasting example we still have access to.
Your point is that VIIII was ever used in history? Happily conceded.
The reason clocks use it, is to not make it look visually unbalanced. Most often they write 4 as IIII. I find it infuriating to break such a simple rule though.
But also, I’ve never ever seen VIIII.
Julius Caesar’s memoir of war in Gaul makes use of VIIII, for instance. You’re right that it’s much rarer, but was still used contemporarily and in modern times.
Yeah yeah. Same same.
Yes, Ix, let’s start naming these planets like its classic SciFi.
I know. I wasn’t being serious.
Nibiru. Not Pluto.
I remember that from my childhood! My mother convinced me it was probably a bad science fiction movie