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All Hail Eris!

Category: astro
Posted on: September 14, 2006 5:21 PM, by Steinn Sigurðsson


Xena is renamed ...

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Eris after its demotion, and its sidekick become Dysnomia

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Eris

Interesting choice of namespace, I blame the Illuminati.

see here and here

Is a Harvard special...

Praise Eris!

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pfft! Seems like a slap in the face to Mike Brown, but perhaps I'm reading a bit too much into this. I don't know the actual politics going on here. Such displays of emotion over finding planets both in and outside of the solar system...

If I ever get this worked up on my dusty degenerates or rubble rings, please put me out of my misery with some Penn State ninjas.

Posted by: JohnD | September 14, 2006 10:46 PM

It's about time she started to get her due. Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

Posted by: sam | September 16, 2006 2:26 AM

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