The ABC reports on this momentously tiny discovery:
According to the scale bar, the planet is only 1/10 of 1 inch in diameter.
I wonder if Paul Davies has begun scouring its 50 square mm surface for signs of intelligent life?
Canadian astronomers discover the world’s smallest planet!
Thomas the Think Engine 
The world’s smallest planet?
I’m standing on it.
I can report to a breathlessly eager readership that it has the texture of some sort of tautological oxmyoron.
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sometimes cheap gags look the same as grotesque ignorance
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A fact I credit with my reputation for being, sometimes, quite amusing.
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even more amazing, and apparrently overlooked, is the discovery of the ‘worlds’ smallest sun!- at approximately 1 inch across, we should be able to bottle that one and run the rest of the planet? inch… light year… whisker… smidgeon…
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