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Sebekpolak51

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Two Plutos in Solar System
« on: January 11, 2015, 05:09:30 AM »
Why is there two Plutos? I found his little brother:

Dan Dixon

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 02:55:48 PM »
Oops. We'll get that fixed. Good catch.

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 06:57:13 PM »
Looks like charon turned into a tiny asteroid named pluto!

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 09:39:10 PM »
What's the tiny thing called 'baon' though?

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 01:29:30 PM »
What's the tiny thing called 'baon' though?

Not baon, but Ixion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28978_Ixion

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 09:11:18 PM »
Noticed this a few days ago however forgot to mention it :/

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Re: Two Plutos in Solar System
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2015, 06:55:32 AM »
What's the tiny thing called 'baon' though?

Not baon, but Ixion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28978_Ixion

Oh, it was just a bit hard to make out the actual spelling. But now that you mention the actual name, I can see the actual spelling.