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You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system
www.newscientist.com ^
| 9 April 2019
| By Leah Crane
Posted on 04/09/2019 11:16:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
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04/09/2019 11:25:44 AM PDT
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fruser1
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/09/2019 11:27:09 AM PDT
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Shadow44
To: Red Badger
Inferus dei
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posted on
04/09/2019 11:27:24 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Red Badger
“Megan ‘Meg’ E. Schwamb (born 1984) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist.”
And she chose not one American-rooted name.
To: Red Badger
All the other planets have cool divinity names. How about Nephthys? Egyptian goddess. Of beer.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/09/2019 11:28:11 AM PDT
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smvoice
(I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
To: richardtavor
Trump: Will he build a resort there.
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posted on
04/09/2019 11:29:26 AM PDT
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reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: Red Badger
Its not pc to call it a “dwarf” planet. Thats size-ist.
Its a Little Planet. Humunculous Prime.
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04/09/2019 11:29:58 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Red Badger
Father Guido Sarduche named this planet already.
She’s a called Going Going Gonggong Planet
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04/09/2019 11:31:23 AM PDT
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Gasshog
To: Red Badger
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04/09/2019 11:31:29 AM PDT
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Leep
(It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
To: Red Badger
“Meg Schwamb, an astronomer at Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, and her colleagues have opened a public vote to name the distant world, which is currently known only as 2007 OR10. They have selected three potential names that fit the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) rules on official names for minor planets, and will recommend the winner to the IAU, which will then select the formal name.”
And the only three names accepted for voting are:
“The three names Schwamb and her colleagues have proposed are Gonggong, a Chinese water god who caused floods and chaos, Holle, a winter spirit from European folk tales who is associated with fertility and rebirth, and Vili, a Nordic god and brother of Odin.”
Makes you wonder just what in the hell are the only “International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) rules on official names for minor planets”.
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04/09/2019 11:31:51 AM PDT
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Wuli
To: simpson96
Astronomical names are traditionally mythological................
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04/09/2019 11:32:20 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Obama. Since everything in the universe revolves around him.
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04/09/2019 11:32:22 AM PDT
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Tommygun99
(I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here!)
To: Red Badger
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04/09/2019 11:32:29 AM PDT
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yarddog
To: Shadow44
Not Manilli?...............
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04/09/2019 11:33:08 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Planet Wangtangdingalingadingdang was my second choice.
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04/09/2019 11:33:54 AM PDT
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Leep
(It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
To: Red Badger
I guess Asty McAsteroid isn’t on the list ...
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04/09/2019 11:34:11 AM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Sausage Pizza.
Hey, I’m hungry... sue me.
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04/09/2019 11:36:01 AM PDT
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LIConFem
(I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
To: Red Badger
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04/09/2019 11:36:03 AM PDT
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bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
To: Red Badger
Planet Wangtangdingalingabingbang was my second choice.
Dang autocorrect.
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04/09/2019 11:36:04 AM PDT
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Leep
(It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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