Asteroid Identification: The Ultimate Space Blunder

In a galaxy far, far away, our team of expert asteroid hunters have made the exact opposite mistake. We're talking about a mistake so egregious, so monumental, so utterly space-tacular, that it's a wonder our spacecraft didn't get stuck in a never-ending loop of confusion.

It started with a simple misunderstanding about the difference between Asteroid 101 and Asteroid 102. One minute we're trying to identify the asteroid as 'Rocky' McRockface, the next we're convinced it's actually a giant space turtle.

But that's not even the half of it. Our team's confusion led us to mistake the asteroid's actual name, which we've since learned is 'Xeridia' (pronounced 'Zeridia'), for Zebulon 9000, a type of asteroid that's only been spotted in the farthest reaches of the galaxy by our top-tier astronomers.

Long story short, our team's asteroid identification skills are, shall we say, less than stellar. But hey, at least we learned something new today!

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