Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
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#2Non-x link?
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#3Non-x link?
Its a twitter thread
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#4Non-x link?
It’s an X post, so what would a non-X link be?
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#7I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap:
An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).
Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
#8It's a thread, and mere mortals without accounts see only the OP (OT?)
I'm starting to get the hang of nitter.net and here's the thread.
https://nitter.lanterne-rouge.info/latifnasser/status/175095...
Other nitter instances were rate-limited or down. This one worked for me.
It's actually interesting.
Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
#9Non-x link?
It’s about the quasi-satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(524522)_2002_VE68. The author also gave a talk at https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve.
Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
#10I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap: An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).
Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid.
The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks.
* I originally said Reply-All