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17 years 8 months ago #32680 by dmcdona
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The Minor Planet Centre have assigned the following numbers to these designated Dwarf Planets. The unoffical names of the last three are included. Official naming will follow later.


(1) Ceres
(134340) Pluto
(136199) 2003 UB313 (Xena)
(136108) 2003 EL61 (Santa)
(136472) 2005 FY9 (MickeyMouse)

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17 years 8 months ago #32681 by iridium.flare
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I think that last one says everything about the whole situation!

But I thought 2005 FY9 was nicknamed Easterbunny?
It's worse than that, it's physics Jim!

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17 years 8 months ago #32684 by pmgisme
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Shouldn't that read the "Dwarf Planet Centre" ?
Here we go again !

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17 years 8 months ago #32689 by dmcdona
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But I thought 2005 FY9 was nicknamed Easterbunny?


You couldbe right - I took the datafrom an unsolicitedemail. I did a check on the net butcameup with nothing. Santa may also be incorrect. But they're great names though. I've certainly heard of Easter Bunny - presumably discovered around easter...

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17 years 8 months ago #32690 by iridium.flare
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I've certainly heard of Easter Bunny - presumably discovered around easter...

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You presume correctly. :) According to Wikipedia anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_FY9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_EL61
It's worse than that, it's physics Jim!

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