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2y ago

Strange object found trapped near Uranus

www.livescience.com

Strange object trapped between Saturn and Uranus is transforming before our eyes

A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust, new observations reveal.

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This headline belongs on not the Onion lol
Sorry 😂
We either need to rename Uranus to the traditional spelling of Ouranos to stop all this childish teasing, or we need to lean in harder and have the Onion get final edit on every single scientific publication on that planet.
- They fixed it in Futurama.l to avoid those childish jokes.
  They renamed it Urectum.
- you - Rahn - oos
  You don't even need to change the spelling, just pronounce it a way that better resembles the underlying Greek. Problem is, no English-speaker needs to think about pronunciation for the other planets because the latin is just pronounced phonetically.
  It's weird that it's the one Greek-named planet. If we're changing things up, it should just be Caelus to match the others.
  
  oo rah noos
  "U" is not pronounced like "you" at all. "Noos" is also pretty off.
Leave me alone. I've been trying to pass it for like a week.
Wow, I wonder if this will impact Uranus in any way?
Said Carlsen to Niemann.
Probably just some cloaked Klingons

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