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"Herschel boffins spot fat dwarf Ceres in TEARS over astro-identity crisis"

 

http://www.theregist...g_watery_tears/

Only because I worked on Satellites does that make sense. before reading ... - it's a planetoid reference Ceres and Vesta are dwarf planets.

"Herschel boffins spot fat dwarf Ceres in TEARS over astro-identity crisis"

 

or a Dungeons and Dragons reference.

 

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http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

my name is on a plaque on NASA's Dawn Satellite

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Scientists using the Herschel telescope spotted something odd on the asteroid Ceres. I have no idea what "TEARS" is. Looks like an acronym I've never seen. Possibly they mean "water", since Herschel works in the far-infrared spectrum, which is a good bad for detecting water vapor, but I don't know why they'd capitalize it.

 

"Excuse me, stewardess. I speak jive."

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Scientists using the Herschel telescope spotted something odd on the asteroid Ceres. I have no idea what "TEARS" is. Looks like an acronym I've never seen. Possibly they mean "water", since Herschel works in the far-infrared spectrum, which is a good bad for detecting water vapor, but I don't know why they'd capitalize it.

 

"Excuse me, stewardess. I speak jive."

So, a scientist is a boffin?
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