[LibWhacker]

[al baby]

minnie mearth?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Don’t call them Dwarf Planets. They prefer to be called Little Planets.

Let’s have some consideration around here : )

[The Lumster]

They are little planets not dwarfs - and certainly not midgets!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I wish he’d named it Mike Brown instead of Makemake.

[RightWhale]

Makemake is not a new plutoid. Too much hype in the headline.

[alecqss]

Title is obviously a mistake (if not worse). It should have been “Under the wise guidance of Obama NASA scientists make more discoveries”.

[econjack]

a planet is now officially known as "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

Question: What the hell does "cleared the neighborhood" mean and how is it quantitatively measured?

Answer: The planet has no illegal aliens within on light year.

[LucyT]

Ping.

[Mikey_1962]

I can’t believe it matters.

[Seruzawa]

Space is dark.
Space is... cold.
Stars occupy minute quantities of space,
they are clustered a few billion here a few billion there,
as if seeking safety in numbers.
Space does not care.

[Seruzawa]

So, when are they finally going to find Nibiru? It’s gotta be close. Obama is obviously from there.

[Sawdring]

We need to start nudging these dwarf planets into orbits that intersect with Mars. We could find a nice water dwarf planet and one made of of iron and collide them into Mars' surface to raise its mass and hopefully jump starts its core to increase its magnetic field. Then we combine Deimos and Phobos and add some more mass and set the single moon in an orbit that will stabilize Mars' seasons. With a 20,000 year time frame to cool things down, I think it is entirely possible to make Mars more habitable.

[BigCinBigD]

Hello! Pizza Palace..This is..Er Willie Tanner, We need 23 large meat pizzas. Make that extra meat, we're celebration. They found Melmac! HA!

[NewJerseyJoe]

> Dwarf Planets

VERY politically incorrect. The preferred term is "little planets."

[Sacajaweau]

I have an old geography book. It shows and names more planets than what we learned in the 60’s. It also shows a big warm spot in the Pacific.

[CaliGangsta]

Al Gore was right. Clearly this planet was created by global warming.

[humblegunner]

New Dwarf Planet!

I bet I could find a girlfriend for Winky there!

[RightWingTeen]

Did we humans find VULCAN yet??