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Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble
segment writes "Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif."
Can we invade them for oil? take over their population, oust their government and continue to wage war on their surface for another decade?
no?
pfft. what use are they then?
"The three small objects the astronomers spotted - given the prosaic names 2003 BF91, 2003 BG91 and 2003 BH91 - range in size from 15 to 28 miles
Hence the size of Philadelphia varies from 15 to 28 miles. Oh, and Philadelphia is a also an irregular sphere.
Excuse me, Sir :
In Armageddon, the meteor was "as big as Texas", now, this one is "roughly the size of Philadelphia".
Now, for the non-US guys here, could you translate ?
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So that's where Darl McBride and the rest of SCO are from!
" They may be roughly the same size as Philadelphia, but I'm sure they'll win a Stanley Cup before WE do. "
But of course. They will change the face of the NHL forever, as they have had millions of years of hockey experience: these icey planetoids are really nothing but hockey rinks.
In other news, Mike Illitch has launched a space probe that is expected to drop a dead octopus on one of these icy surfaces by the year 2017.
Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia
:P
Does the Google calculator convert between Philadelphia's and metric units for us non-Americans?
...Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia...
Yeah but how much would they weigh at sea level in metric elephants?
The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks...
In other news, Bob Vila will be demonstrating how to build a solar system from scrap in his series This Old House. Also, a hotel chain in Sweden has threatened to sue God for patent infringement citing illegal use of icy blocks for construction.
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So how much does that weigh in clouds?
When I was a kid there were 9 planets, the asteriod belt a few moons and we were happy with it. Now with this new fangled Hubble stuff they're finding new spitwads everyother damn day. This ones' the size of Bangor Maine, that one's the result of two K Mart parking lot sized iceballs crashing into each other. What the f---?
Oh great another unit of measurement. I already have a hard time converting US Standard to metric, much less elephants, LOCs, and VWs. Now this.
The big question is whether they could spot any Toynbee Tiles inlaid in the remnants?