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Author: Cosmic Strings

It’s A Hoax!

*gasp*  You’ll never guess why I missed that last blog post!  Aliens!  They abducted me and took me away to their secret lair somewhere in North America and performed experiments on me!  I can’t believe I made it out alive! Okay, that’s not what happened. …

Mr. Mojo Rising

You know, maybe I should just go ahead and say that I’ll update this every other Thursday.  Wednesday just seems to have some kind of bad mojo about it that makes getting an update done impossible. However…it was worth the delay, because boy do I…

What’s In a Name?

Xena.  2003 UB313.  Eris. These names all refer to the same astronomical body – a dwarf planet located out near Pluto.  “Xena” was the nickname given to the little world by its discoverer, Mike Brown.  2003 UB313 was its official designation until an official name,…