re new planet kuiper object found tholen galileo ifa hawaii edu dave tholen writes james nicoll writes if the new kuiper belt object is called karla the next one should be called smiley no no no the previous one was called smiley qb smiley and fw karla by the way qb can never be known as smiley officially because that moniker has already been assigned to asteroid number could someone explain where these names come from i m sure there s a perfectly good reason to name a planetoid smiley but i m equally sure that i don t know what that reason is josh hopkins jbh uxa cso uiuc edu find a way or make one attributed to hannibal
