To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:54:22 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] NASA set to announce possible tenth Solar planet
From: ronkean at juno.com
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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.

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