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2005-05-24 Down Under

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Posted by Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The news was announced this morning 10am on the NASA-sponsored website of Harvard University's Centre for Astrophysics.

Well, I'm not sure what NASA has to do with it, but here's the CfA press release.

Note: "If an Earth-mass planet was in the same position [as the planet we found], we would have been able to detect it," agreed professor Andrew Gould (Ohio State University), a member of the team who made the discovery.

That would be really impressive, at 15,000 light years.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-05-24 00:08|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-05-24 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The massive, gaseous planet, cumbersomely named OB-05-071

They tried to name it OB-1K-NO-B, but their lawyers advised against it.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-24 07:33|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-24 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL!!!

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-24 08:50|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-24 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Robert Crawford, you are on a rolllllll this morning!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-05-24 09:17|| 2005-05-24 09:17|| Front Page Top

... and they all gathered at a favorite watering hole to celebrate the discovery, and welcome a new planet in to the family of worlds...

Posted by BigEd 2005-05-24 12:32|| 2005-05-24 12:32|| Front Page Top

#6 No one is interested in Pluto any more, it's a real Micky Mouse planet.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-05-24 13:39|| 2005-05-24 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Pluto is on the verge of being downgraded to an ordinary TNO, in the same class as Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar, Varuna, and Ixion...

Posted by BigEd 2005-05-24 15:55|| 2005-05-24 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 apparently the discovery came just ahead of Arab scholars finding that the moon circles the earth

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-24 16:20|| 2005-05-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#9 15,000 light years. Let's beam them a message and see if they reply in 30,000 years.

Posted by Tom 2005-05-24 16:24|| 2005-05-24 16:24|| Front Page Top

#10 "send reply c/o Ted Williams' head"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-24 16:32|| 2005-05-24 16:32|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL!
Ted "the head" Williams acts as interplanetary translator. Love it.

MESSAGE FROM THE BIG HEAD!

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-24 16:38|| 2005-05-24 16:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Still no cure for cancer. Sigh.

Posted by Asedwich">Asedwich 2005-05-24 20:08|| 2005-05-24 20:08|| Front Page Top

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