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Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake
- Mizza 10y agoGetting an SSL error on a NASA page.. Weird.. HTTP Link: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-discovers-moon-orbiting-the-dwarf-planet-makemake http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-discovers-mo...
- throwaway_yy2Di 10y agoHere's the discovery paper: http://hubblesite.org/pubinfo/pdf/2016/18/pdf.pdf http://hubblesite.org/pubinfo/pdf/2016/18/pdf.pdf
- asimuvPR 10y agoThanks for the link to the paper. :)
- syncsynchalt 10y agoThe two names we're floating are Makemakemake and Minimake.
- jrjarrett 10y agoHow about Moony McMoonface? :D
- narag 10y agoIt would be nice if there was some voting to give it a name. But... original name of Makemake was Easterbunny, so you see how names go for these things. There's still a relation, since Makemake was a god in Easter Island.
- Natanael_L 10y agoLike somebody else mentioned, moonmoon.
- InclinedPlane 10y agoUhhh, that's a dumb name, McDumberson. I think the obvious answer is Make McMakemake
- Eyght 10y agoPrincess Monomake
- Natsu 10y agoMakemashita.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoMoonyMoony?
- whoopdedo 10y agoCMakemake Gradlegradle
- c3534l 10y agoI don't see how they can justify that "artists impression" of a moon they know nothing about. It has no use other than to mislead.
- nathancahill 10y agoDunno why you're being downvoted, we're still undoing years of misleading from artists impressions of dinosaurs.
- 542458 10y agoI dunno - I have a hard time getting mad about that. I mean, the "cost" of those misleading artist's impressions as found in Jurassic Park and others (which were largely in line by the best scientific estimates at the time) is a few largely harmless misconceptions that many adults carry around. Conversely, the benefit is getting millions of children and adults excited about natural history, geology, biology and science in general. Sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me.
- zeven7 10y agoWhat did Jurassic Park get wrong?
- 542458 10y agoOff the top of my head, brachiosaurs likely couldn't lift themselves onto their rear legs to feed, DNA from mosquitos in resin is probably a pipe dream, raptors had feathers and were probably quite stupid, and the t-rex probably had really good eyesight but wouldn't be fast enough to chase down a jeep - however, those are more recent conclusions. There was also a lot of creative license taken with the size of a lot of the dinosaurs in the film - generally, they were scaled up to make them more impressive. Dilophosaurus spitting to attack is pure fabrication as well.
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- kchoudhu 10y agoI remember when Pluto looked like that as well.
- nxzero 10y agoMooMoo feels like the name for Makemake's moon.
- urvader 10y agoLet's name it Moon McMoonface
- dovdov 10y agoHow about Moonmoon? :) http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moon-moon http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moon-moon