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labellementeuseOH OH ITEM OF COOLNESS:
Tenth Planet Discovered!
That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?
Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.
Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...
*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun
Tenth Planet Discovered!
That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?
Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.
Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...
*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun
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Date: 2005-07-31 11:50 am (UTC)Um.. What do you mean about the Roman names thing? I was saying that the demigods were taken somewhat into Roman culture, though definately not as much as otehr ideas. Hence Herakles to Hercules. Leaving hErcules as an appropriate name. Or at least within pattern.
Actually Aeneas isn't bad, although there's a sense of origin to that. Ullyses is the Latin of Oddyseus, so it would have to be that really.