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New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto

Posted by timothy on from the delightfully-free-of-tourists dept.

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."

3 of 756 comments (clear)

  1. Congradulations by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    You've just discovered the Rhode Island of the universe.

    Maybe we will make it a droid colony or something..

  2. Re:What a silly name by sweet+reason · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Planet X is as good a name as any. At the least 99% of people can pronounce it.

    99% of what people? half of all people only speak chinese.

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    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- A.E.
  3. Re:not official name by dswensen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm rather partial to "Yuggoth" myself.