neptune. neptune. why don't you have the honor? tyson: big blue neptune is 21 times as wide as pluto. last and least? and not least. we have pluto. represented by a ball bearing removed from a roller skate. ah. sometimes the most valuable things are in the smallest packages. there you go. excellent. pluto. tyson: pluto's diameter is just under 1,500 miles. in fact, if it ever decided to visit america it would stretch only from california to kansas. no matter how you look at it pluto makes a scrawny little planet. pluto's really puny, right? but so is mercury. pluto's a lot punier-- 1/20th the mass of mercury. of mercury. gingerich: that's less than the mass of the moon. touchdown right there. (laughing) tyson: if we were to keep score of pluto's oddball traits versus its planetlike characteristics, how would it add up? brian thinks pluto's puny size disqualifies it from the planet team. so he gives one touchdown and, of course, the extra point to pluto the oddball. this is ridiculous. marsden: it's not ridiculous. tyson: mark disag

studies are underway to determine whether kepler-22b is solid like earth, or more gashes like neptune. those studies might be difficult. kepler-22b is about 600 light years from earth. >> back on planet earth, we are talking about the rain showers happening right now across the maryland areas. most of them are south of 95 in baltimore, but they stretch back into d.c. all this is going to add up to a bit of a slow commute for the afternoon. the roadways are already wet. more rain on the way. that will slow down traffic. shares are lifting off to the north and east as the system has our way. back to what's happening across our area right now. we have quite a bit of cloud across the area. temperatures have been mild. started off in the 50's. we are now in the low 60's. this area of low pressure is just starting to make its way toward the western tier of maryland. the cold front is the big player in our weather pattern right now. once it passes us, the temperatures are much colder. that's when we start talking about the possibility of snow. for right now, this is a rain event. i want to m

it could be more like gassy neptune than earth but they can interpret data. >> what can you do with that knowledge? >> what we're trying to do with this knowledge is we're building a picture. and the picture is, how many stars in all the galaxy have something like earth where something can be possible. if the answer is many, then there's probably a lot of life in our galaxy and the next instrument to get built will look at the stars because most of them will have planets so you won't have to look very far. >> reporter: scientists are taking the discovery of a potentially habitable planet seriously, even if it is 600 light years away. the search for extra ter rest tree yell intelligence, they are planning on following up the nasa discovery. operating a bank of 42 small radio telescopes from a site near a small fishing stream in california. its director of research, jill tarter, says the telescopes will now focus in on kepler 22-b. >> that's certainly one place that we want to look because we want to ask the question and perhaps find the answer, does anybody live there? and this particular

they say it is too early to say if it is solid with water or gaseous like neptune. approximately 600 light years away. very close as a matter of fact, about 6 trillion miles. >> we'll get there eventually i guess. >> you can buy real estate there now. >> discounted. >> just start something off. >> got some rain coming and maybe even snow too? >> it's hard to believe. the temperatures over the last couple hours have been going up. we are at 54 degrees at 6:00 and now at 57 degrees at 11:00. tomorrow morning some areas could be sitting around 60 tomorrow. we will be quite warm ahead of the storm system. but it's what is behind the storm system that has a lot of people talking including me but that's my job. 60 degrees is the current temperature -- that was the high temperature today. ten degrees above the average of 50 degrees. and today is the 16th day we were at or above average in a row and that is really just amazing how warm we are been at the end of november and early december. i don't think the rest of december will be as warm. winds out of the south at 6 miles

he should be focusing on greek gods like neptune or apollo or mars! zeus!compare himself to mere mortals, especially with the handy calf. fdr didn't have that many birdies. >> kimberly: that was a joke. go ahead. >> dana: i think when you are a sitting president asked to compare yourselves to otherred and give yourself a grade there is only one answer. history will have to decide and i'll focus on one what i'm doing. he is talking about the legislative accomplishments but he is not running on his record with the signature achievement being his healthcare reform plan. which would be overturned in march. in which case he wouldn't be the most accomplished legislative president of all time. >> kimberly: good point. eric? >> eric: he said he is fourth best of all time, so he would be better than george washington, thomas jefferson, harry truman, ronald reagan -- >> kimberly: and george bush. >> eric: why adult he already have a carve-out on mount rushmore for himself now. >> greg: he should share that! >> bob: or be on "jersey shore" in front of your house. can

will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no no, this my hand will rather the multitudes now sea incarn di making the green one red. >> my hands of of your color but i shame to wear a heart so white i hear a knocking at the south entry. retire we to our chamber, a little water clears us of this deed. how easily it is then. your constantly hath left you unattended. hark! more knocking. put on your nightgown lest occasion call us and show us to be watchers. be not lost so poorly in yo thoughts. >> in your new life how are you going to find what it is you most wanto do. >> with patience, i think i need to put a gap between... >> rose: shakespeare? >> not necessarily shakespeare but perhaps between running a major iconic arts organization and the next thing that i do. >> the me de man on your time to do that, between management, pure management and art... >> yeah, it's a hard thing to do to keep moving forward as an artist while addressing the queue of people needing answers. >> exactly. >> it... yeah, it is demanding. it is dema

he won last year wearing a king neptune costume. >> is that another take on the polar bear dip?e chilly water. >> it's key west. water temperatures are still close to 80 degrees. so that's not so bad. >> this is true. >> we have nice weather here, but i would not want to jump into any body of water. >> don't jump into the water here. >> note to self. >> temperatures only in the low 50s right now. so it's a little bit cooler than in key west, no doubt bit. a nice looking day. sunshine on your sunday morning. temperatures responding very favorably to the sunshine. sun has been up since 10 after 7:00. temperature down at the airport right now is at 42 degrees. not much of a breeze just yet. as i have been talking about, a little bit of southwesterly flow will put our temperatures in the mid and upper 50s today. near 60 degrees coming up for tomorrow. right now, though, still climbing our way out of the 30s and into the low 40s across many neighborhoods. no rain threat for your sunday. a completely dry finish to your weekend. most of us dry through monday as well. but the rain just

. >> neptune beats florida, thanks nor your comments on federal judges. the changes she proposing would be a significant departure from the founders. peter, sugar land texas. >> bill: sure, but congress has to pass laws restricting the court's decision mega like the ability to wage war. that is for congress to decide, not judges. congress wants additional power it has to propose what that is and then the process begins. >> bill: absolutely not. we should find a way to combat it like jessica's law. >> bill: i'm glad to hear that. >> the show in santa barbara is just about sold it on so we're adding a matinee. i'll in tampa on march 11 and 12. check it out on the billoreilly.com. >> bill: that is the formula for my books and the factor. pinheads and patriots, kim jong-il is dead. wouldn't want to be him if there is an after life situation. the government in north korea had video of a few women, if you look closely, there are not any tears. they most likely paid the women on the show. there is like eight of them not too many normal people cry for mass murder

also know little about the atmosphere or what the planet is made of; it could be more like gassy neptunen earth. but they can interpret data. what can you do with this knowledge? >> what we're trying to do with this knowledge is we're building a picture, and the picture is how many stars in all the galaxy have planets something like yours where life could be possible? if the answer is many, then there's probably a lot of life in our galaxy, and the next instruments that get built to look at the atmospheres, we look at just the close-by stars cause most of them will have planets, so you won't have to look very far. >> reporter: scientists are taking the discovery of a potentially habitable planet seriously, even if it is 600 light years away. at seti, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, they say they will follow up on nasa's discoveries. seti operates a bank of 42 small radio telescopes, from a site near a fine fishing stream in northern california. its director for research, jill tarter, says those telescopes will now focus in on kepler 22b. >> well, that's certainly one place that

if it's too cold like neptune, it would be too cold to have water, liquid water.ercury and venus it would be too warm because it would be steam. but somewhere in the middle they found this beautiful planet and gave it a great name. kepler 22-b. that's our earth's rotation,. it is slightly smaller than our sun. slightly cooler than our sun but the same type of class. the same type of sun. and then they found this planet rotating around it almost the exact same distance away. we take 365 days to go around, this takes 290 days to go around so it's almost the exact perfect spot. they have 54 more planets they have to look at as well. 600 light years away. even the light we see is 600 years old but they can estimate that the temperature on this planet is 72 degrees. now that to me sounds like san diego. if i can get there, i love san diego. you don't have to worry about snow there. 290 days. this is the first. this is the big announcement yesterday. this is the first of many, many more announcements that nasa will have. we're going to have hundreds if not thousands of