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New Moon for Uranus

Posted by michael on from the all-joking-aside dept.

Spudley writes "With a headline that is just begging for puns, the BBC has a story about a new moon that has been discovered around Uranus. I wonder if this one will turn out to be a old rocket engine too?"

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  1. In Utter Trepidation... by Locke!Erasmus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm going to make the first post that is serious on this topic...

    I think it's great that they've found another moon in the outer solar system. It must be rather complicated keeping track of all the objects that are out there, and especially determining whether an object is a brand-new discovery or an old one.

    Do they have some kind of database or repository of this information? Perhaps it is available on the web or something. I would be most obliged if someone would point the way.

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    I should have picked out the nickname Demosthenes!Tecumseh.