Solution - Time Suck

by Tyler Hinman and Mike Sylvia, with technical help from James Hopkin, Paul Melamud, Corey Plover, and Becky Siegel

Answer: Click here to reveal

Thirty times in this incredibly annoying ten-hour video, a speech bubble with a letter appears over the guitar-playing Spongmonkey. These letters spell TIMESTAMPS AS MINOR PLANET NUMBERS. If you remove the colons of the video's timestamp at that moment, you get the numerical ID of a minor planet. What that Spongmonkey actually says on each occasion, however, is a number from one to nine. (You didn't mute the video, did you???) This tells you the letter to take from each minor planet's name.

00159Aemilia3M
03355Onizuka1O
05706Finkelstein8T
11516Arthurpage4H
15058Billcooke9E
20106Morton3R
22003Startek6E
23751Davidprice2A
30025Benfreed5R
31031Altiplano3T
34817Shiominemoto2H
40459Rektorys8S
41943Fredrick1F
43956Elidoro3I
45300Thewrewk5R
51823Rickhusband7S
54411Bobestelle6T
60406Albertosuci2L
62503Tomcave7E
63129Courtemanche5T
65637Tsniimash1T
72543Simonemarchi6E
73640Biermann4R
75823Csokonai8I
81203Polynesia5N
82232Heuberger7G
90226Byronsmith3R
91553Claudedoom6E
94400Hongdaeyong7E
95247Schalansky9K

The clue, MOTHER EARTH'S FIRST LETTER IN GREEK, leads to Γαια and the answer GAMMA.