New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto 763
theBrownfury writes "BBC, Sydney Herald, and the Indian Express are reporting a new object, which is one-tenth the diameter of the Earth, and lies well beyond Pluto in an area of the Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt. The new world, which has been dubbed Quaoar, is about 1,280 kilometres (800 miles) across. Quaoar orbits the sun ever 288 years and is 1250 Km wide, about the size of all the asteroids combined. This discovery is being hailed as the most important solar system discovery in the past 72 years."
Ah crap... you've found my home planet. (Score:5, Funny)
Most Important Solar System Discovery (Score:5, Funny)
Not by me.
Aw shucks (Score:5, Funny)
Goofy.
not official name (Score:5, Funny)
I vote for CowboyNeal.
Blarney (Score:5, Funny)
Do I perceive a-bit of the ol' Irish accent in ye? Or are ye a pirate be?
Vanna White, help! (Score:5, Funny)
Otherwise known as the Vowel Planet
MVEMJSUNP (Score:5, Funny)
ahh damn now what are we supposed to use to remember the planet order
Can anyone think of a use for a new planet? (Score:5, Funny)
and I can't think of a single thing we could do with Quaoar (OSLT).
Nope. Zilch. Not a single damn use for another planet.
We still haven't figured out what we're going to do with the current lot.
Perhaps I'm an ignorant barbarian, but how is finding one more planet 'important'?
I mean... surely 'importance' has to have something to do with human aspirations?
Re:Will it stay named? (Score:5, Funny)
Hah! Got it! (Score:4, Funny)
Someone just wants to sneak this word into the dictionary so that he can beat his aged grandmother at Scrabble.
This is the only possible reason for the name.
Send it to Bosnia! (Score:3, Funny)
tenth planet (Score:5, Funny)
(We miss you, Douglas)
Triv
Re:MVEMJSUNP (Score:5, Funny)
Um, well it doen't solve the problem of 10 planets, but on the other hand we could leave it as "Nine". Just imagine our grandchildren will tell their children that the "Nine" is an artifact of history when people thought there were only nine planets in the Solar System...
just doesn't sound the same (Score:3, Funny)
very
eager
mother
just
served
us
nine
um... quickly?
ah well, i'm sure someone else can come up with something more creative
K-Pax (Score:3, Funny)
Now I know he was really an alien!
Re:Aw shucks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Proposed name for planet... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Vanna White, help! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vanna White, help! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Vanna White, help! (Score:3, Funny)
He he. And I thought we exhausted all the space doodee jokes when the new moon of Uranus was posted a few weeks ago. Boy was I wrong.
"Vowel Movement Linked to Uranus" (Score:5, Funny)
Astonishing discovery! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Quaoar is California Spelling of American India (Score:4, Funny)
The God of Vowels, no doubt.
(I know I know, I cannot kick this vowel thing.)
Re:tenth planet (Score:4, Funny)
-1 Stupid (Score:2, Funny)
No, that's Uranus.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, Uranus is the Bowel Planet.
Why the controversy over "planet"? (Score:2, Funny)
**Obligatory Dom DeLuise joke here.
10th planet discovered - again. (Score:2, Funny)
"We're really pleased to have discoverred the solar system's 10th planet. Only though diligent research methods, including pointing telescopes at lots of different areas of the sky, were we able to make this discovery," said team leader George Randi.
When asked what was most satisfying about the discovery, Randi said "Definitely making the '10th Planet of the Week' website. Almost all of our buddies have discoverred at least one 10th planet, so we were feeling a little left out."
Astronomy buffs are also encouraged to rate the discovery at "scientificornot.com" and "wasteofmoneyornot.com". Said team member Alfred Inglebrot, "Our discovery of the 254,357th asteroid got all ones and a two. We're hoping that finding the new 10th planet will appropriately get us a few tens. At least until someone else discovers the new 10th planet next week."
The discovery was not without controversy, however. A competing russian research team claims they found this week's 10th planet first at 3:04 AM on Sunday, preceding Randi's team's discovery at 9:27 AM bt over 6 hours. "We were robbed," said Alexander Dumivsk. "The Russians are always overlooked in favor of American glory."
The Americans downplayed any controversy. "They can try again next week. Even if we were a little later, our 10th planet is obviously the biggest, and that's certainly more important that precise timing."
Re:Aw shucks (Score:5, Funny)
I think you'll find (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dimensions (Score:5, Funny)
1250 Km = 1250*1.024 km = 1280 km. Everything works out.
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MVEMJSUNP (Score:4, Funny)
How about My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Numerous Pizzas Quickly. Then we no longer have the scalability problem.
Farengi bar jokes, part I (Score:5, Funny)
Quark, Queue me up a Quick Quart of Quaoar
The Greeks knew a long time ago. (Score:0, Funny)
Venus: Hottie God
Mars: War God
Jupiter: King God
Saturn: Fertility God
Uranus: God of the Sky
Neptune: God of the Sea
Pluto: God of the Dead
Quaoar: God of the Queer
Of course, this information was suppressed by the Romans when they assimilated the Greek gods. The Romans just weren't into 'doing it greek'. Why they left that homo statue David standing is a mystery to me.
Re:Is it really? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, given the distance from the Sun, I'd say it's a very COLD discovery!
Re:Vanna White, help! (Score:2, Funny)
Eieio
Sawyer called it (Score:5, Funny)
Alien: It's only natural that humans would use a base-10 number system. You have 10 of everything. 10 fingers, 10 toes, 10 planets in your solar system...
Human: Uh, that's nine planets.
Alien: Keep looking.
Don't you know... (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot Poll (Score:5, Funny)
1) kyoo-ohr
2) kway-ohr
3) kwow-ahr
5) kwak-kwak
6) k-pax
7) kow-boi-neel
Re:Aw shucks (Score:3, Funny)
Hey!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Aw shucks (Score:3, Funny)
I swear, it looks like the sort of name that was made specially for Ash to mispronounce, thereby summoning unspeakable evil to an S-Mart near you.
Obligatory Simpsons Refernce (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can anyone think of a use for a new planet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Is it really? - no, it's Vorlon in origin... (Score:2, Funny)
Top 5 speculations where 'Quaoar' came from... (Score:2, Funny)
4. A new interplanetary CDMA relay station sponsored by Qualcomm...
3. Some drunken Brooklynite...
2. A homophobic astronomer with a southern drawl...
1. Somebody tried to use a non-Roman god but couldn't remember the name of that winged Aztec creature...
Re:How old are you then? (Score:1, Funny)
So, you must be older than 248 Earth-years then (that's the time Pluto takes to revolve around the sun).
Or wait... you a one-year old kid?
Re:Ah crap... you've found my home planet. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Aw shucks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Aw shucks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dimensions (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The bigger issue (Score:2, Funny)
So how long until Jack Brennan moves it? (Score:3, Funny)
And puts another Stonehenge in my backyard?
Re:MVEMJSUNP (Score:1, Funny)
Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten, Quatsch!
Re:classic 1) 2) ??? 3) profit!!!! (Score:0, Funny)
2)????
3)PROFIT!
Re:Aw shucks (Score:5, Funny)
"Honey, I'm telling you... 'Quaoar' is so a word. It's the name of the planet we discovered yesterday. Yeah, that's it..."
Re:What makes a planet? (Score:2, Funny)
If you worry about it landing on you: asteroid.
Come on, Moon 2, Moon 2!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Moon2.com. If only it were 1999, this would already be funded!!
Re:MVEMJSUNP (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Aw shucks (Score:1, Funny)
"Your honor, I didn't say that my wife was insane, I said that she was fucking goofy! "
(The joke works better when you can tell it with the Mickey Mouse voice. And by damn, that's the definition of fair use, so Michael Eisner can kiss my ass!)
Re:Most Important Solar System Discovery (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Aw shucks (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like my cat when I stuck it in the microwave.
Correction to the article (Score:3, Funny)
sort of a setback (Score:3, Funny)
Zok: Hey, this looks like the place from the message, check it out: humanoids, single sun...
Glork: Oh wait though, there are ten planets. Let's keep looking.
Klork: Drat! I was so looking forward to bestowing the technological gift of perfectly realistic virtual porn on yet another race.
Great! (Score:2, Funny)