Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Monday, November 07
Dammit, Scientists!
I always wondered why certain trans-Neptunian objects were classified as "cubewanos". Where did that name come from? There are plutinos (makes sense, planetoids similar to Pluto), classic and resonant Scattered Disk Objects (SDOs), Kuiper Belt Objects, and so on, which are mostly self-explanatory. But cubewanos?
I always wondered why certain trans-Neptunian objects were classified as "cubewanos". Where did that name come from? There are plutinos (makes sense, planetoids similar to Pluto), classic and resonant Scattered Disk Objects (SDOs), Kuiper Belt Objects, and so on, which are mostly self-explanatory. But cubewanos?
Turns out the first example found was classified as (15760) 1992 QB1. Other similar objects were named QB1-os - as in spaghettios. And that ended up being spelled cubewanos.
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