[Sgt_Schultze]

An orbiting Death Star!

[1bigdictator]

Planet X: Rogue planet in a binary orbit between our Sun and another star; it's supposedly due to pass between the Sun and Earth sometime late spring or early summer. Is this correct?

[William McKinley]

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[Forgiven_Sinner]

I just read "Beyond this Horizon" by Robert Heinlein. In it, he names the 10th planet "Persephone", which is a far better name than Quaoar. I hope that name gets overruled, although the discover of a planet has some input to the naming process.

Quaoar violates the mythological convention that has been used for over 2500 years.

Is it a planet? Yes, although you could argue for it being a large asteroid.

[martin_fierro]

The "Quaoar" name is so obscure that Google only came up with one link. Fitting, I guess.

[js1138]

"It's arbitrary. You get into a real semantic sort of swamp. It's like trying to define life," he said.

Oooooh. A crevo thread.

[LibWhacker]

It can't be a planet; it's not named after a Greek God.

[weikel]

The fringes of the tinfoilers should be having a celebration right about now( you know planet Niburu where the shapeshifting lizards who control everything came from) lol.

[aShepard]

Quaoar - named after the creation force of the Tongva Indian tribe, the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles area where the Caltech campus is located -

How totally P.C.!

[blam]

Vulcan

[steve-b]

It's arbitrary. You get into a real semantic sort of swamp.

Paging Bill Clinton....

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

The Land of Lost Loser Liberals.

Let's send Daschle and gang, along with SoDamn Insane and his merry band of muslims there to create their own Utopia. I'll volunteer to punch their tickets! ;^)

[Alouette]

If this is not 'Planet X', what is it?

It's the Palestinian State.

[Jonah Hex]

Let's see.... it's small, cold, and stony.

Let's call it "Hillary's Heart"!

[pabianice]

Quaoar - named after the creation force of the Tongva Indian tribe, the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles area where the Caltech campus is located - was discovered in June, but not announced until yesterday.

Valuing the Difference of the Multicultural Diversity Alert! I'm sure the object was named for the Tongva because of their sophisticated lnowledge of astronomy...

[Young Werther]

Omigosh! Gasp!

[DonQ]

Who the heck named this "planet"?? There is an international committee for the naming of celestial bodies and I bet they had nothing to do with this.

[Aracelis]

Quaoar ping!

[Darth Dan]

All your Quaoar are belong to us!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Planet X is after planet W according to Porky Pig in "Duck Dodgers in the 21st and a half century."