Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Discovering Myanus


LOS ANGELES — It’s beefy, tasty and bigger than Pluto. And according to scientists who found it orbiting the sun, it’s the newest planet on our solar system’s block. The planet — the farthest-known object in the solar system — is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto’s current distance from the sun.
Astronomers do not know the new planet’s exact size, but its brightness shows that it is at least as large as Pluto and could be up to 1 1/2 times bigger. The research was funded by NASA.
Scientists have submitted a name for the new planet to the International Astronomical Union, which has yet to act on the proposal, they had not released the proposed name by Friday, but speculation is that it will be either Bubba, or Myanus.
The planet was first photographed in 2003 using a 48-inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory during the head astonomer’s lunch hour.
What’s unique about the latest finding is that the object appears to be bigger than Pluto, and almost completely edible.
In this atrist's rendering you can see that beneath the planet’s sesame seed crust there appear to be two all beef layers, a special sauce like substance, lettuce, cheese, pickles and, of course onions.

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