The largest object since Pluto was discovered in 1930 has been unofficially named Quaoar (pronounced KWAH-o-ar) after “the creation myth of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers.” The Kuiper Belt Object is just over half the diameter of Pluto and has a period of revolution about the Sun of 288 years. This is a very interesting discovery, but something has to be done about that name! Officially, the designation is 2002 LM60 and the International Astronomical Union will vote on its official name in a couple of months. Hopefully, they’ll come up with something that won’t be, as one Slashdot reader put it, “what happens when scientists get a load of crappy letters in Scrabble.”