Woohoo! Tenth planet!

/Fark you, Pluto haters.

Hail Discordia!

What? No love for Eros?
/better name than Eris

Squawky: What? No love for Eros?
/better name than Eris

Already taken, moran.

Which one's the evil one?

Agarista: Hail Discordia!

FTFA:
"Saturn's moon Enceladus"

great now I'm hungry for Mexican food.

FrancoFile: Squawky: What? No love for Eros?
/better name than Eris

Already taken, moran.

If Moran is already taken, then why name another the same?
/moran

Just a big nothing.

SNUBBED!

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Don Cherry?

Doesn't seem like that great a place for Voltron Force to hang out.

We'll always have Mondas.

Very cool!

I say:

I'd hit it.

Q&D

Arkanaut: Which one's the evil one?

The one with the goatee, duh.

I'm starting to think the whole "Pluto's not a planet" thing is just because a bunch of high ranking astronomy nerds are bitter that they didn't discover Eris first.

/They could have made history, instead they made drama.

What's the difference between a "frozen atmosphere" and an icy surface?

TrojanRabbit: What's the difference between a "frozen atmosphere" and an icy surface?

I think that it's that the frozen atmosphere sometimes isn't frozen. But I could be wrong.

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Woohoo! Tenth planet!

/Fark you, Pluto haters.

If Pluto is a planet, then Eris isn't the tenth planet. It's the seventeenth.

jack21221: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Woohoo! Tenth planet!

/Fark you, Pluto haters.

If Pluto is a planet, then Eris isn't the tenth planet. It's the seventeenth.

Yeah, this. There are either eight planets, or lots. In no sense can there ever be nine planets again.

Will idiot fanbois insist it's spelled Erith?

germ78: Can't they just point the Hubble at the planet instead of relying on an artist's impression?

The Hubble isn't big enough to resolve any features on Eris small enough to make a good picture. This is the best it can do with Pluto:



Getting above the atmosphere only helps you so much. The size of the mirror still limits how clearly you can see objects.

jack21221: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Woohoo! Tenth planet!

/Fark you, Pluto haters.

If Pluto is a planet, then Eris isn't the tenth planet. It's the seventeenth.

Seventeenth is even better!

/Don't need to take my shoes off to count beyond ten.

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C'mon, George. It's nice in the apple.

germ78

Can't they just point the Hubble at the planet instead of relying on an artist's impression?

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the result of the failing US public education system.

I'm pretty sure that someone not having knowledge of how the Hubble Space Telescope works beyond knowing that it looks at stuff in space isn't a real indicator of anything to do with the public education system.

Most people tend to not bother with the details of things far outside their realm of expertise.

Perhaps a housewife should call out your education for not knowing the difference between puree and julienne on a blender, or something equally ludicrous in nature?

It's still Xena to me, dammit!