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Saturn's New Moons Named
sebFlyte writes "The BBC is reporting that three new moons found orbiting Saturn at the end of last year have been named. 'Two moons detected in August have been given the names Methone and Pallene, while another found in October has been provisionally named Polydeuces.' Polydeuces is also reported as being a very strange object-- a trojan moon. It sits in a spot near a larger moon where the gravitational pull of the other moon (Dione here) and the planet cancel each other out."
Polydeuce bigalow.
Planet Gigolo
That's no Trojan moon...
Yikes better update my anti-virus. Don't want to get infected by W32.Polydeuces.A@mm now.
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
....Methone and Pallene, Polydeuce? Where's the cowboy neil option?
There is no replacement for displacement.
No, and thank you for rubbing it in. *shame*
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Yes, the next moon will be named Hitler!
No that's not a death star! It's just Hitler!
Yes, and the first planet that has signs of intelligent life, shall be now known as Planet Bush!
Naming them Ronald and Reagan?
must have been on drugs!
When asked why they had named the moon now after millenia of observation, one student from Saturn's top university said, "Why not, you know? I mean, like, we had named everything else of importance, dude. Even the unimportant places. So like this was all that was left."
No comment could be received from inhabitants of !3kd8dgh, since they don't speak Standard Galactic. Moreover, they laughably think they are the only inhabitanted planet in the system, and it's considered taboo to disabuse them of this ignorance.
I find that nerds are always using phrases such as:
"Yes, that's quite intuitive to me."
Don't they know that these phrases convey no useful information and only serve the purpose of making the nerd seem even more self-centered and arrogant?
Sure, you can impress us and show us how smart you are, but please don't do it by telling us "golly, i'm so smart."
It's quite obnoxious.
Oh Saturn, I love your rings. They make you look so beautiful. I just love being around them for all this time.
...TROJAN MOON.
Oh moon, the way you circle around me makes my weather patterns get all disrupted. You are just the perfect little moon, I love you.
Oh Saturn, I think its time for some gravitational pull...
This post has been filtered for sanity.
Planet Starbuck? It's better than the
System Microsoft. Where the Sun BSOD's once a year.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
For some reason these names are starting to remind me of the names of worlds in Populous.
Scoqazpert
Methone
Bileapert
Pallene
Not that different, really.