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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."

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  1. Pronunciation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quaoar. It is pronounced 'Lie-nucks'.

  2. 7th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    content

    1. Re:7th post by nogoodmonkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      8th post to be exact.

  3. Can you imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a beowulf cluster of Quaoar?

    Thank you.

  4. All your frozen worlds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    belong to Uranus.

  5. I'd laugh ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but I live in Maryland!

  6. MOD UP: Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Credit where it is due.

  7. I'm laughing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because you live in Maryland.

  8. Funny Names... by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The new world, which has been dubbed Quaoar[...]

    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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  9. Re:Is Quaoar an obscure god? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How illogical... Emotions are illogical and obscuring the naming of this tenth "planet".

  10. Re:Blarney by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My guess is that it was named by a Farengi pirate.

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  11. Re:Is it really? by Our+Man+In+Redmond · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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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  12. Most imporatant discovery in the last 72 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I believe the discovery that Pamela Anderson has fake tits is more important. Significantly more important. We all have a better chance of grasping her breasts than some 800 km object out side of Pluto's orbit.

  13. Re:not official name by dswensen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.