News You Can Bruise for 2006 September 4

I am feeling burned out right now, and unable to write, so I'm just going to point out some more of the weird things in the universe and the social constructs people come up with to deal with them:

• Planetographic coordinates. Defining the prime meridian of a gasball is trickly.
• Extreeeme extrasolar planets (PSR_B1620-26c is 12.7 billion years old!)
• Asteroid moons, asteroid families, and Kirkwood gaps