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New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto
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."
All I have to say is: I don't want to hear any more complaints about what a crappy name "Ogg Vorbis" is ever again! :-)
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My guess is that it was named by a Farengi pirate.
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It's still a cool discovery.
Apparently it's a completely frozen discovery.
(Sorry, couldn't resist . . . I'll mod myself down now.)
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Okay, whoever you are, I'm curious as to how on earth that's flamebait.
I understand if you haven't read your Lovecraft, so I could understand maybe an "Offtopic," but how do you get flamebait? I'm being disrespectful to fictional Mythos creatures the world over?
Unless of course someone has a mod-point vendetta out for me, which I wouldn't rule out. Seriously. I'm curious as to your motives.