The Comet

After the gang finishes their meal, Gene, Nucleina, and the Plutonii's see the time and realize it's time to go outside soon. A comet that has been in the news since its discovery early last year, with the unsexy name "Johnson 2019 C7", or simply "Comet Johnson" (spurring all the immature jokes and innuendo from such a nickname) was just an hour away from rising over the southwest horizon.

However, Comet Johnson wasn't the talk of last year because of its name, but because it had the largest nucleus of any comet observed in modern history, a whopping 25 miles wide. On top of that, it also had the most explosive surface chemistry and internal composition, so by the time the TPE was officially founded, Comet Johnson is now already two magnitudes brighter than Venus at her brightest.

Right now, it was still only 9:20 pm, but due to the positions of Earth and Comet Johnson, Pluton Island was already beginning to see the tail end of Comet Johnson rise above the horizon to the South East. The remainder of the party was spent on the roof of Gene's Hangout, watching Comet Johnson's bright, majestic tail rise over the fogless, icy island for the first time in the Plutonian Empire's official history.