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New Object Found at Edge of Solar System
Rei writes to tell us NewScientist is reporting that a new object has been found beyond Pluto. The new object, nicknamed "Buffy", has an almost circular orbit which is tilted some 47 degrees off of most other bodies in our solar system. From the article: "Neptune has been blamed for scattering many other [Kuiper Belt Objects] into tilted paths. But these tend to show other signs of a past interaction with the giant planet, such as moving in elliptical paths and having one part of their orbit pass near Neptune's at 30 astronomical units from the Sun. [Buffy], however, follows a nearly circular path. And it is too distant to have come into direct contact with Neptune, traveling between 52 and 62 AU from the Sun. Its orbit is also too circular - and too small - to have been tilted by a passing star."
Like, OMFG, it's Buffy!
... how many vampires has it slain? :-)
My work here is dung.
Meh. They should call it Rupert.
I vote that we send Joss Whedon to explore this "Buffy."
Tsk tsk. So typical of today's media. Always ready to play the blame-game.
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It's not a new space object, it's a piece of lint on the telescope.
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Oops, I mean, KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
Those names are no wackier than Uranus.
Picture of "Buffy" taken by the Voyager probe.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
And you know nothing of my work -Neptune
If these astronomers are going for "bang" with their names, why not choose something offensive like a racial slur instead of something cute. Or name the planet after genitelia like Uranus. Planit Hizpenis or Jerbrest. If they don't care about going intellectual, why care about tact at all?
It seems to me like its either Disney or Fox who is getting the naming rights to these planets.
I am and always will be a stereotype, because who in their right mind prefers mono?
"That's no moon."
-mj
Rupert, did you know that the word 'gullible' isnt in the dictionary? ...[passes dictionary to Rupert]... What's that, it ISNT? ...[takes dictionary]... Oh, Rupert, hoisted by my own petard! Haha! Haha!......I am so alone...
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I'm sure it's Apophis' fault.
Somebody's gotta teach that dude how to die.
Sorry Fry, But Scientists renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke.
What's it called now?
Urectum
Actually this could even be a case of some Scientologist myth being correct, and that could be Xenu.
Build your bunkers now.
Cheers.
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The United States government has just green-lit a project to send a ship to the edge of the solar system to study this new object. I hear that the scientists and other passengers will be cryogenically frozen during the long trip and that the pilots will be assisted by Microsoft's latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence: Computer Lifeforce Intelligent Pilot Project: Year 9000 edition, or C.L.I.P.P.Y 9000 for short.
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recalls Martin Short talking to Dennis Quaid while in the mens room
Don't worry, you won't always be small!
as man exits a stall and says
Play with it, buddy. Don't talk to it.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Wrecked 'em, hell, it killed 'em.
illegitimii non ingravare
Now he's going to have to move Kobold.
"Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgement." Job 32:9
I, for one, welcome our new vampire slaying overlords.
Rhapsody in Numbers
Santa (and moon Rudolph, plus one unnamed)
For the un-named moon, I submit the suggestion... "Olive, the Other Reindeer."
Unless, of course, "That's not a moon..."
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
Astronomers are used to heavenly bodies with zany and/or boring names, but think of the poor astrologers! Who will ever take them seriously when they say that someone has Buffy in scorpio, Santa in virgo, and Xena in pisces?
And whatever would such a horoscope indicate?
Hmm. In the words of the comic book guy: Worst. Codename. Ever. :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
According to a recent book, the Oort Cloud is only theory. No one to date has actually prooved its existance.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
What does the name 'Buffy' say about us?
SMG is hot?
I have good Faith in that unless this is a Willow, she'll have a little Angel orbiting it called "Xander", that rises in the Dawn during its frosty winters as well as its icy Summers... Too bad there's not even an Oz. of hospitality to humans there, or it would be nice to visit this body, forever Chasing through space. :-p
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Sub-machine guns are hot?
There are a lot of other things that would be hot in SMG's hands.
*sigh*
Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch about a newly discovered planet they were going to call Bumhole, but pronounced Boomholay!
I'm laughing now, and I every time I think about it!
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