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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. My God! by Phalse+Impressions · · Score: 0, Troll

    Alf was right. He knew it 15 years ago and we are just now figuring it out!

    Listen to TV aliens. They know more then you think.

  2. Re:Most Important Solar System Discovery by joeykiller · · Score: 1, Troll
    "This discovery is being hailed as the most important solar system discovery in the past 72 years."

    Not by me.


    What's wrong with today's moderators?

    I can't believe a statement like that can be modded up to "Insightful". Had the poster at least written a few reasonable words stating why, I'd maybe understand it. But this...