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ever heard of quaoar?
« on: Oct 8th, 2002, 5:16pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Hi,
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar  Smiley
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How do you dig up these links? Cool
 
Interesting to note that they 'might' be able to spot more of these 800-1000km diameter Kuiper Belt objects, but that one or two of those could be 'super-Pluto', which is, I guess, in excess of 1400km diameter.
 
'Warp 5, Mr Sulu, and mind you dodge round Quaoar and Varuna, plus the entire Oort Cloud when we get there...'
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Re: ever heard of quaoar?
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on Oct 8th, 2002, 7:02pm, Ian wrote:

How do you dig up these links? Cool
 
Interesting to note that they 'might' be able to spot more of these 800-1000km diameter Kuiper Belt objects, but that one or two of those could be 'super-Pluto', which is, I guess, in excess of 1400km diameter.
 
'Warp 5, Mr Sulu, and mind you dodge round Quaoar and Varuna, plus the entire Oort Cloud when we get there...'

 
 
While for me, I can't hear "Kuiper Belt" and "Oort cloud" without thinking of Ann McCaffrey's "Dragons of Pern" series.  Cheesy
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Re: ever heard of quaoar?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 8th, 2002, 11:33pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I still think someone was having a laugh when they named half of these things. Reminds me of the Twain driver, which (when they capitalised it to TWAIN to make it sound important) set off a whole series of "what's it mean?" stories.
 
At least it wasn't Asimov and his endless obsession with robots. Personally, the best bit of science used in science-fiction was the Dirac Communicator, in a novel by James Blish. Imagine being able to hear every transmission made by every Dirac Communicator ever made, past, present and future? Paul Dirac must have laughed when he read it, then probably went on to prove it was possible... (who knows, though, because he was a very private person and not very confident in public).
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