Iceballs of the solar system
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Author's Game Description
The ranks of known iceballs is swelling. Some have moons. Some are (or will be) listed as dwarf planets.
By user Lexicon on the Wikimedia Commons, based on older NASA work.
Category: Science Games
Created by tickman, 2 Dec, 2007
Tags: Astronomy, belt, kuiper, science, tno
2 ratingsPlayed 102 times | 0 Fav's
tickman 1 year ago
aikapula 1 year ago
And now it's time to rename 2005 FY9 "Easterbunny" and 2003 EL61 "Santa" as "Makemake" and "Haumea" respectively.
aikapula 1 year ago
It's 'Quaoar', not 'Quaor'. What is it about multiple vowels that causes some people problems? ;-)
tickman 1 year ago
More on the subject, and this artwork at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
The picture alone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EightTNOs.png
The image comes with a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license, version 2.5.
Details:
| Highscores — Iceballs of the solar system | Place 1 - 10 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | hebknie | 100% | 0:11.2 min. | 13 May, 2009 |
| 2 | Arturo | 100% | 0:11.3 min. | 12 May, 2009 |
| 3 | CarpeDiem | 100% | 0:12.2 min. | 9 May, 2009 |
| 4 | Nynke88 | 100% | 0:13.9 min. | 13 May, 2009 |
| 5 | geowiz | 100% | 0:14.0 min. | 20 Mar, 2008 |
| 6 | aikapula | 100% | 0:14.5 min. | 22 Dec, 2007 |
| 7 | heateh | 100% | 0:15.3 min. | 8 May, 2009 |
| 8 | arbivara | 100% | 0:15.6 min. | 30 Jun, 2008 |
| 9 | Poloazer | 100% | 0:17.4 min. | 11 Jul, 2009 |
| 10 | Itachi | 100% | 0:17.5 min. | 8 May, 2009 |
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Latest Players
Unregistered Player
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Unregistered Player
, 1 week ago
I have changed the names. Thanks for the update. I'd heard about the name change for Haumea, but somehow managed to forget that I'd made a game on this topic...