Scientists Find Another PLANET in our solar system!

Space DOT com - Breaking News ^ | posted: 03:51 pm ET 15 March 2004 | By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer

[Tanniker Smith]

It's political correctness gone amok, I tell you!
First, they want to call something massively-challanged a planet rather than a fuzzy ball of ice-dust, and then on top of that, they throw out the convention of using ROMAN gods and goddesses and name it after an Intuit!!

Go figger.

TS

[Liberal Classic]

RED LECTRIODS FROM PLANET TEN!!

[Tangerine Time Machine]

You silly person! Everyone knows star names are picked out by radio listeners who pay for their star name to be entered in the International Star Registry, a copy of which is registered in book form with the US copyright office!

I don't know who this International Astronomical Union is, but they're blowing smoke if they think they have any say in the matter. I've already paid to have this new planet named Egbert after my dearly departed da, who showed me the difference between the big and litte Tippler lo these many years ago! To think that someday explorers will land on planet Egbert is just so thrilling! Everyone should pay to name their favorite heavenly body after a loved one!

(g)

Seriously, I wonder if anyone ever pays for that 'service'?

[Nexus]

[skinkinthegrass]

KEWL!... :)

[Cronos]

they throw out the convention of using ROMAN gods and goddesses and name it after an Intuit

Well, they have mostly run out of those and the discoverer is free to name an astronomical body after what they want, if you found it you could call it Tanniker Smith III

[Xenalyte]

Now we just need to figure out how the hell to pronounce "Quaoar."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It is redder and brighter than anything astronomers have seen in the outer solar system, and scientists don't know why.

Nemesis.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Dude, those are black Lectroids. The good guys. The red Lectorids are the bad guys.

[Ichneumon]

Now we just need to figure out how the hell to pronounce "Quaoar."

Just clear your throat...

[Ichneumon]

They can claim discovery of a heavenly body 200 billion light years away, name it whatever and no one can dispute the finding.

Let's all keep an eye out for the next big comet, and then name it "Freerepublicdotcom".

[unibrowshift9b20]

Quaoar is also named after a non-Roman god. I think its native American or something like that.

but whats the 11th "world" then? the great eight, pluto, quaoar and now Sedna, so what was after quaoar and before sedna?

[Liberal Classic]

I hereby surrender my nerd credentials.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I hereby surrender my nerd credentials.

Hey, I'm ashamed to admit that I know the difference.

I got the DVD from my kids for Christmas...yeah...that's the ticket.
I...got the...D...V...D. And I...watched it...10 times in...a...row. Yeah. That's it.

[SunkenCiv]

just a bump in a Blast from the Past, with a related link:

Giant Kuiper Belt planetoid Sedna may have formed far beyond Pluto
Physics Org (http://www.physorg.com/) | January 24, 2005 | Southwest Research Institute
Posted on 10/22/2005 1:05:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1507383/posts

[Hatteras]

Quaoar? I have a hrad time picturing Mickey calling for his pal, Quaoar...

[arizonarachel]

Finally, a place to dump all those AOL "99 hours free!" CD's.

That is hilarious!

[Bushman2]

I think, whatever it is, it should be called RATVILLE after all the "Out of this World RATS". Then we can ship them off to their own dream world.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I don't consider Pluto a planet.

I feel the same about Uranus. Shall we vote on it? Simple definition of planet: A nonluminous celestial body larger than an asteroid or comet, illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves.

[MontanaBeth]

Great pictures, thanks for the clarification.