New planet nicknamed after Biden

The Hill's Briefing Room ^ | March 26, 2014 | Justin Sink

[2ndDivisionVet]

Astronomers have nicknamed a new dwarf planet circling the sun at the outer edges of the solar system after Vice President Joe Biden.

According to Nature, a leading scientific journal, the object's official designation is 2012 VP113. But the team studying its orbit around the sun colloquially refer to the planet as just "VP" or "Biden," after the sitting vice president.

The object won't carry an official title until scientists collect more data. After determining its orbit, they'll submit a formal name to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for consideration. The Biden dwarf is the second such object to be discovered in the area beyond Pluto. The object is 280 miles across, and an estimated minus 430 degrees.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The jokes just write themselves.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Someone wanted to name an asteroid after Trayvon Martin. Now a new planet after Biden. Wonderful........

[Jim Robinson]

Uranus ain’t new. Neither is Pluto.

[kingattax]

wait until sheila jackson lee hears about this. she’ll be wanting to see something left on “Biden” by the astronauts.

[Fungi]

How about “three words:” a dumbass biden planet.

[Secret Agent Man]

dumbass-77?

[Secret Agent Man]

they found a planet that revolves around its own ass?

[ZULU]

Must have an eccentric orbit

[Mastador1]

But we already have a planet called Uranus. Maybe they could just call it Plagiare, that would be appropriate or perhaps intelligious minor, Planet Idiota or even Balatro Major!

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding, not pinging, this is the third topic about it.

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[shove_it]

The Biden dwarf is the second such object to be discovered in the area beyond Pluto

Perfect. Put that on The Gaffer's tombstone.

[onyx]

PREFECT !©

[Slyfox]

[Bullish]

And it's orbiting around a bloviating planet called sphincter.

[TigersEye]

Planet Biteme?

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not a scientist, so it’s impossible for me to grasp how it is that some of them could be this ignorant.

Seriously, what doubt is left that Biden and Obama are two of the most mentally challenged political figures in the history of Washington, D. C.?

And so some nimrods actually name a spacial object after Biden.

Our scientific standing just dropped 47 points world-wide.

[Pelham]

Planet... Dope?

[twister881]

Moronus

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

How about “Uranus Two?”

Or Upper Uranus?

I actually liked Moronius. An apt description of Lunch Pail Joe.

[tet68]

So, was this the big announcement coming from Brazil?
In Portuguese ?