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Newfound pink world lurks at solar system fringes
www.utsandiego.com ^ | 03-26-2014 | By ALICIA CHANG

Posted on 03/26/2014 12:06:45 PM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 03/26/2014 12:07:56 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

LOS ANGELES (AP)

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2012vp113; asteroid; catastrophism; comet; dwarfplanet; exoplanet; kbo; kuiperbelt; minorplanet; oortcloud; pinkplanet; space; xplanets
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This combination of images provided by the Carnegie Institution for Science shows a new solar system object dubbed 2012 VP113, indicated by the yellow arrow, that was observed on November 2012 through a telescope in Chile. New research published in the journal Nature reveals it’s the second object to be discovered in the far reaches of the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. (AP Photo/Carnegie Institution for Science, Scott S. Sheppard)

1 posted on 03/26/2014 12:06:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

Pink Planet Ping!................


2 posted on 03/26/2014 12:07:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

Planet Claire? (It has pink air.)


3 posted on 03/26/2014 12:09:21 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Red Badger
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head

Planet Claire, The B-52s

4 posted on 03/26/2014 12:09:31 PM PDT by JOAT
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To: Red Badger

Pink? Is the name of this planet “Gayanus?


5 posted on 03/26/2014 12:10:16 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Red Badger

Which one’s Pink?


6 posted on 03/26/2014 12:10:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Disambiguator

She drove a Plymouth Satellite faster than the speed of light.


8 posted on 03/26/2014 12:12:34 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Red Badger

FINALLY! A home world for the Gays!!


9 posted on 03/26/2014 12:13:25 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Red Badger

Did panthers evolve there?


10 posted on 03/26/2014 12:13:49 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Red Badger; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Wow! Thanks Red Badger for the ping! Two-list topic, too.

11 posted on 03/26/2014 12:17:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: Red Badger
Time to update the poster?


12 posted on 03/26/2014 12:17:49 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Wow! Thanks Red Badger for the ping! Two-list topic, too.
 
X-Planets
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Google news searches: exoplanet · exosolar · extrasolar ·

13 posted on 03/26/2014 12:18:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: Red Badger

Read that on Space.com. Pretty cool. We have no idea what is in cold storage at the edge of our solar system.


14 posted on 03/26/2014 12:18:56 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...

WTH, extra to APoD, along with a link to the impermissable graphic that will soon be deleted.

http://media.utsandiego.com/img/photos/2014/03/19/b7cf122afc33920b4f0f6a7067004f47_r620x349.JPEG

http://media.utsandiego.com/img/photos/2014/03/19/b7cf122afc33920b4f0f6a7067004f47_r620x349.JPEG?75d51d0aea2efce5189afce216053cbc530c46a8


15 posted on 03/26/2014 12:20:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: JOAT

think it might have Rock Lobsters at the love shack?


16 posted on 03/26/2014 12:20:20 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Red Badger

17 posted on 03/26/2014 12:21:36 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Red Badger

Which One is Pink?

Oh...and have a cigar.


18 posted on 03/26/2014 12:22:08 PM PDT by left that other site
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related article:

Distant new world may point to undiscovered planets in solar system
Today’s discovery of dwarf planet 2012 VP113 suggests that many planet-sized worlds lurk undetected beyond the orbit of Pluto, maybe even a giant ‘Super Earth’
http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2014/mar/26/planets-solar-system-2012-vp113-dwarf-planet-super-earth


19 posted on 03/26/2014 12:22:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You mean the 7th planet.


20 posted on 03/26/2014 12:24:16 PM PDT by dangus
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