RE: Digest Number 1128

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Hi Therese! How are you? A long time not " heard " of you and the group. I am

curious

which sign the 10th planet occupies now and the degree. I save the url to follow

the

process. Have a good time!

Anny

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Van:

 

Verzonden: zaterdag 30 juli 2005 19:03

Aan:

Onderwerp: Digest Number 1128

 

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1. From the NCGR List: NASA SCIENTISTS DISCOVER TENTH PLANET

therese hamilton <eastwest

2. Restablish lost mind body connection

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therese hamilton <eastwest

From the NCGR List: NASA SCIENTISTS DISCOVER TENTH PLANET

 

Seems like this one's for real. It hit the news late today.

 

Therese

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Dolores Beasley

Headquarters, Washington July 29, 2005

(Phone: 202/358-1753)

 

Jane Platt

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

(Phone: 818/354-0880)

 

RELEASE: 05-209

 

NASA SCIENTISTS DISCOVER TENTH PLANET

 

A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of

the solar system.

 

The planet was discovered using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar

Observatory near San Diego, Calif. The discovery was announced today by

planetary

scientist Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology in

Pasadena, Calif., whose research is partly funded by NASA.

 

The planet is a typical member of the Kuiper belt, but its sheer size in

relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a

planet, Brown said. Currently about 97 times further from the sun than the

Earth, the planet is the farthest-known object in the solar system, and

the third

brightest of the Kuiper belt objects.

 

" It will be visible with a telescope over the next six months and is

currently almost directly overhead in the early-morning eastern sky, in the

constellation Cetus, " said Brown, who made the discovery with colleagues

Chad

Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and David

Rabinowitz, of

Yale University, New Haven, Conn., on January 8.

 

Brown, Trujillo and Rabinowitz first photographed the new planet with the

48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope on October 31, 2003. However, the object

was so

far away that its motion was not detected until they reanalyzed the data in

January of this year. In the last seven months, the scientists have been

studying the planet to better estimate its size and its motions.

 

" It's definitely bigger than Pluto, " said Brown, who is a professor of

planetary astronomy.

 

Scientists can infer the size of a solar system object by its brightness,

just as one can infer the size of a faraway light bulb if one knows its

wattage. The reflectance of the planet is not yet known. Scientists can

not yet tell

how much light from the sun is reflected away, but the amount of light the

planet reflects puts a lower limit on its size.

 

" Even if it reflected 100 percent of the light reaching it, it would still

be as big as Pluto, " says Brown. " I'd say it's probably one and a half times

the size of Pluto, but we're not sure yet of the final size.

 

" We are 100 percent confident that this is the first object bigger than

Pluto ever found in the outer solar system, " Brown added.

 

The size of the planet is limited by observations using NASA's Spitzer Space

Telescope, which has already proved its mettle in studying the heat of dim,

faint, faraway objects such as the Kuiper-belt bodies. Because Spitzer is

unable to detect the new planet, the overall diameter must be less than

2,000

miles, said Brown.

 

A name for the new planet has been proposed by the discoverers to the

International Astronomical Union, and they are awaiting the decision of

this body

before announcing the name.

 

For more information see:

 

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown

 

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index