Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:13:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: NASA set to announce possible tenth Solar planet
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_n04040_solar_object.html
>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,8968352,00.html
>
> It's another world ... but is it our 10th planet?
> By Louise Milligan and agencies
> 15mar04
>
> SCIENTISTS have found a new world orbiting the solar
> system – more than 3
> billion kilometres further away from the Sun than Pluto
> and 40 years away
> from Earth in a space shuttle.
>
> NASA is expected to announce today the discovery of the
> space object,
> which some experts believe could be a new planet.
> It is provisionally known as Sedna, after the Inuit
> goddess of the sea.
> The discovery of Sedna – 10 billion kilometres from Earth
> – is a
> testament to the new generation of high-powered
> telescopes.
> Measurements suggest Sedna's diameter is almost 2000km –
> the biggest find
> in the solar system since Pluto was discovered 74 years
> ago. It is
> believed to be made of ice and rock, and is slightly
> smaller than Pluto.
>

Anything smaller than Pluto hardly deserves to be called a
planet.  Pluto itself is the smallest planet in the Solar
System, even smaller than our moon.

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