One of the best titles ever…
From SpaceWeather:
TRANS-NEPTUNIAN COMET APPROACHES EARTH: In only a few days, newly-discovered Comet Iwamoto will split the orbits of Earth and Mars, making a relatively close approach to our planet visible through small telescopes. This is a rare visit. The comet comes from the realm of Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects, a distant region of the solar system inhabited by strange objects such as “Sedna” and “the Goblin.” Get the full story on Spaceweather.com.
Trans-Neptunian Comet! Very cool.
But there’s more!
“The Goblin”?
And there’s something out there called “Biden”.
I can hear your minds going whrrrr-pop to assign “The Goblin” to some political figure.
They had to call is ‘Biden’ because ‘Uranus’ was taken.
Well there’s the Hillary-Rodham 666, a wide body ice comet that orbitz Uranus and the third level of Hell. But I digress…
A stranger in a strange land, his eyes narrowed, focused on the view-screen in the starship’s lounge. Trans-Neptunian Objects rolled past the starship like tumbleweeds. Ahead, in the distance, Oort clouds. He leaned against the bar, comfortable in his grandfather’s full-length canvas duster (Classic Duster #4307). In one hand a lariat of 59 beads, with the other he raised a glass of single-malt, warm with a peat-smoke finish, to St. Christopher.
– J. Peterman Catalog, Summer 2097