Mooquackwooftweetmeow
Concatenating zoölogical onomatopœia since 1999
About Mooquackwooftweetmeow
Hi! This is Mooquackwooftweetmeow, a collection of stuff by Greg K Nicholson.
Entries written on 15 March 2004
- Planet X-2
The press release is now online, as is Mike Brown's Sedna page, at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-05/ and http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/ respectively. Right then - Sedna isn't a planet - it's not even a Kuiper Belt Object. According to Mike Brown, the Kuiper Belt has a fairly sharp edge at 50AU (1 Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to the Sun, 150 Gm); Sedna comes no closer than 70AU. The appropriate term for Sedna is Inner Oort Cloud Object (and I'd like to take this opportunity to lay claim to the acronym IOCO).
- Planet X
Well, they finally found it, Planet X, a.k.a. Sedna. Of course, if it is decided that it is actually a planet, the name will have to be changed to a Roman god. Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the ocean, and the Roman god of the ocean - Neptune - is already taken.
- Apostrophes
I'm now using the aforementioned RSS Reader to read this weblog. So it has to be valid Atom, the content must validate when RSSified, and still validate when XHTMLified. Thus, to save hassle relating to escape characters and other such technicalities, I'm now using straight apostrophes as quotes. It's ugly, but it works.
About these entries
These entries are pretty old. Beware parachronisms.