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To: vannrox

I thought they were naming the 10th planet Qaoar, or something.

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5 posted on 10/22/2005 10:16:38 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Quaoar (sp?) was the name assigned to one of the KBOs of a few years ago.

same team found Quaoar and "Xena" or "Persephone" or (my suggestion) "Brown's Planet".

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar/


7 posted on 10/22/2005 10:19:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: martin_fierro
they were naming the 10th planet Qaoar,

That was several planets ago. 50,000 AU is a lot of space. There could be a planet out there bigger than Jupiter and we wouldn't know about it. There could even be a brown dwarf star and its own planetary system and we wouldn't know.

13 posted on 10/23/2005 9:19:21 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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