Thursday, September 14, 2006

[stop press] eris now named

I’ve rushed this extraordinary news to you today, shamelessly hacked direct from the Globe and Mail [including lifting their photograph and passing it off as my own]: The rock whose discovery led to Pluto's planetary demise [remember?] is now named Eris, after the Greek goddess of chaos and strife. Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, said the name was “too perfect to resist.” Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that sparked the Trojan War. Eris' moon is now Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness. 70 miles wider than Pluto, Eris is the farthest known object in the solar system at 9 billion miles away from sun. Now you can go to work [or sleep] in peace.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Comments need a moniker of your choosing before or after ... no moniker, not posted, sorry.