Ghost of a flea: UB313

February 02, 2006

UB313

German astrophysicists claim UB313 is a third larger than Pluto. This is either bad news for Pluto, potentially downgrounded to a mere planetoid, or good news for the as yet to be named Planet X (my money is on "Yuggoth").

According to their calculations it has a diameter of 3,000 km (1,864 miles), about 700 km (435 miles) bigger than Pluto, which would make it the largest solar system object found since the discovery of Neptune in 1846.

"Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status," Bertoldi added.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 2, 2006 08:32 AM

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Comments

So the reports of the discovery of the deep space HQ of the agents of the Flea are misguided?

Posted by: Alan McLeod at February 2, 2006 11:06 AM

I still support "Vulcan". We owe it that much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28planet%29

Posted by: The_Campblog at February 2, 2006 12:16 PM