They found Planet X!

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Maybe. What's unclear is if it's actually larger than Pluto or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to love playing Project X on my flatmate's Amiga. This was of slight relevance when I misremembered its title as Planet X.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

This has to be the title of a porn movie.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Monday, 15 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wowee!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

do john doe and exene cervenka know yet?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Important question: does this fuck up astrology now? Or does it count as the 'mysterious shadow planet' predicated already?

― pete s, Monday, 15 March 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

More mystery objects in Kuiper belt!

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/kuiper.htm

Quaoar, an Icy World Far Beyond Pluto
With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have determined that 2002 LM60, an icy Kuiper belt object dubbed "Quaoar," by its discoverers, is the largest body found in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Quaoar (pronounced kwa-whar) is about half the size of Pluto. Like Pluto, Quaoar dwells in the Kuiper belt.

The photograph at bottom right is a close-up view of the icy world. Only Hubble's sharp vision can resolve the disk of this distant world, leading to the first-ever direct measurement of the true size of a Kuiper belt object. Quaoar's diameter is about 800 miles (1300 kilometers). It is the farthest object in the solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope. Quaoar is about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, more than 1 billion miles farther than Pluto.
― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's no planet, just like Pluto ain't a planet.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Just like Goofy ain't a dog.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Quaoar? wtf, how did they come up with THAT name? someone at NASA drunk behind a keyboard?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

qhwoar!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the next planet should be called SCROOGE McDUCK.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Naming it after an inuit god is not consistent with the world's naming policies.

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

or we should just rename pluto, planet x, and quaoar "huey, duey, and louie."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man can we please please please have a "Pluto is a planet" vs. "Pluto isn't a planet" FITE

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

good thing NASA's gonna let Hubble deteriorate.

― hstencil, Monday, 15 March 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pluto is a plaNOT!

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 15 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this like the "tomato is a fruit" argument or something?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

more like "koalas aren't bears"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Tacos, anyone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

So, they found Planet X.
If they find Formula X the galaxy's doomed.

― pete s, Monday, 15 March 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

QUICK SOMEBODY CALL THE POWERPUFF GIRLS OMGWTF!!&%%@^

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

chemical x creates powerpuff!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.insectphotos.net/ppg/img/chemx.jpg

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It will be centuries before we kids understand the relevance of this discovery, but I do hope, in the meantime, Dubya keeps his mits off'n it.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I can only assume that Mandee is out having a street party in honour of this discovery.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nymuseum.com/animated/marvinbig.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Next you're telling us they found the G-spot...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The naming of this body is possibly the ONLY real actual situation ever where an accusation of Political Correctness having Gone Mad would be reasonable.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hold on, that's not what they were calling it on LBC this morning!

NB I cannot remember what they were calling it but it wasn't QUIAOAOR. Rick it is actually a GOOD idea to call it QUIAGFIAUF because think of the SCRABBLE POINTS.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

And yes you are allowed it according to MY rules anyway.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Not only is it a very small planet, it also sounds like a Klingon, so thumbs up all round. Qwa-Wah!

They were calling it something beginning with "S" this morning on Radio 5.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 15 March 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Sedna! That's the one. Inuit goddess of the ocean. Quaoariauroiua is this:

The importance of Sedna is that it is the first such world discovered in its normal orbit. Other similar though smaller worlds, like Quaoar and Varuna, originated in the KB but have since been perturbed into different orbits

Ah so there.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

So when do we get to have the EXPEDITION TO PLANET X to meet the chiXors with the plastic skirts and the rayguns who demand "we are from Planet X - take us to your men!"

Pluto - SO not a planet. Captured comet. If they're going to call Pluto a planet with it's weird, warped, Neptune-clipping orbit, then Planet X is welcome.

― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbitist!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 15 March 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem is that Sedna sounds like a small car.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I'm a planet rockist.

(Oh god, I'm so sorry, that joke had to be made.)

― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

where does this leave Mondas?

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, well if Planet X comes round my house and sleeps on the couch for two weeks and eats all the fruitcake and drinks all the tea and has its scary Japanese fan-stalkers screaming outside my window, you KNOW I'm gonna start an anonymous annoyed thread about it!

― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'be just been reading up on the legend of Sedna, and I'm glad to report that the Inuit took just as many drugs as the Greeks.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(No offense to any Inuit ilxors!)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Pluto's a planet cuz I learned it that way. There.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Pluto is not a comet. It is huge.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Monday, 15 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Coz I want it thaaaaat waayyyy...

Oh wait, sorry, that's Backstreet Boys, not Liberty X. Oops. Sorry! Spoiled mine own joke.

― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't planet X like really dangerous?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I can only assume that Mandee is out having a street party in honour of this discovery.
-- Jerry the Nipper (jerrythenippe...), March 15th, 2004.

I'm in #zetatalk discussing this with all the other Planet X PHR3AKS

― Mandee, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I need a refueling
I need your kiss
Come on now and
Plant it on my lips
Whammy kiss me
Whammy hug
Revitalize me
Give me whammy love
Yeah!

On Planet X-oh it
Won't be long now
I got a light year to
Get to the phone now
I'm gonna contact you
When I get home

Give it all you got
Give it all to me
Come on mammy and
Throw me that whammy
I said give it all you got
Give it all to me
Come on mammy, throw
Me that whammy

And I know I need
That whammy kiss
Whatever you do
I'm just passing the
Time to get to you
To pass the time with you

He cannot stand to
Go into work when he
Needs some whammy love
Whammy

You gotta use it right
Use it right now
I ain't foolin'
Give me a refuelin'
Yeah, whammy kiss me
Whammy hug
Come on mammy throw
Me that whammy

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 March 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Pluto is a big comet.

My Very Emaciated Mother Just Sent Us Nothing. It works better this way!

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Pluto = oversized asteroid, surely?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

According to the Daily Mirror's astrologer the discovery of Sedna,"heralds a new era of human cloning, an end to fears of global warming...and a brand new 'world religion'". Unless it's not a planet...

Hooray for Sedna.

― winterland, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Is predicting trends in cloning a traditional element of astrology?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They shoulda named it Starbucks.

― Ikaruz, Saturday, 20 March 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

or at least Mocha Frappacino if it's not a planet.

― Ikaruz, Saturday, 20 March 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

They should have called it Fremme N... WHOOPS! Sorry!

― The River Kate (kate), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

That's how I will get famous! I will force the scientists to name it after me moi ha ha ha ha

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Saturday, 20 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

They found planet ? now (currently inexplicable/impossible)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6934603.stm

― StanM, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Planet XL

― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Nibiru.

Never heard about it until just now, in the comments to a (stupid belgian tabloid) newspaper article about some rare meteorological phenomenon (a chinese dust cloud from the Taklamakan desert that just circled the globe) - anyway, this idiot (Stan, STOP READING COMMENTS AND HAVE YOUR SAYS, you can't handle the stupidity) replied and said it was all easily explained: Nibiru is coming. And that he had fully prepared his children for this event. And that thousands of scientists in the USA are going to sue Al Gore and the NASA for hiding the evidence. And then another idiot replied that he had studied this for years and that it is all true, unfortunately.

So I went and looked up Nibiru on Wikipedia and now I want to know if I can sue these (I can't think of another word than) retards for wasting my time.

― StanM, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

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