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Old 08-22-2011, 01:35 PM   #1
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August 22, 2011 Black Planet

Discovered in our home galaxy by the Kepler Space Telescope, TrES-2b is the darkest planet ever found.



This Jupiter-like gas giant planet reflects only one percent of the starlight that strikes it.

Why is it so dark? That is a mystery the astronomers will enjoy investigating!

via National Geographic

Illustration courtesy David A. Aguilar, CFA
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Old 08-22-2011, 01:39 PM   #2
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Discovered in our home galaxy by the Kepler Space Telescope, TrES-2b is the darkest planet ever found.
TrEs-2b, commonly called the Compton planet...
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Old 08-22-2011, 03:03 PM   #3
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Old 08-23-2011, 08:02 AM   #4
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This is the name I like:

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"Maybe an appropriate nickname would be Erebus"—ancient Greece's god of darkness.
From this National Geographic article.

(For some reason, I've noticed that the first time I click the link it goes to the Store, but the second time I click the link it will go to the article.)
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Old 08-23-2011, 10:56 PM   #5
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Old 08-24-2011, 04:23 AM   #6
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Let's name it Shadow!

Or Smokey!

Or Dark Black!
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:38 AM   #7
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How about something more overtly racist like Spook?
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Old 08-24-2011, 08:34 AM   #8
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Does it have to orbit at the back of the solar system?

It does need a better name. I wonder if you got a French speaker to pronounce TrES-2b whether they could make it sound like Tres toubee' or something.

There is a debate in physics about whether the hypothesised cloud of dark matter surrounding our galaxy is in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects. Yup, WIMPs Vs MACHOs.

Science is mostly serious, but it seems you are allowed to have fun with the naming.
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Old 09-01-2011, 03:56 AM   #9
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are allowed to have fun with the naming.
Foreshore. Just look at the subatomic particle names for the types of quarks. Charm, color, etc.
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Old 09-01-2011, 10:42 AM   #10
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mmm... Leeloo...
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Old 09-01-2011, 12:38 PM   #12
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This is racist.
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Old 09-06-2011, 08:55 PM   #13
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Old 09-07-2011, 02:48 AM   #14
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Foreshore. Just look at the subatomic particle names for the types of quarks. Charm, color, etc.
Geologists get in on it too:

Check out this metamorphic amphibole with the chemical composition (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2, magnesium iron silicate hydroxide.
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Old 09-07-2011, 02:54 AM   #15
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Oh for the lurve of gawd, I've found the mother load: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

Dickite ... moronic acid ... arsoles ... fruticolone ... fucitol ... furfuryl furfurate ...

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