"Jim Phillips" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, The Ice Cream Bandit wrote:

Greg Neill wrote:

"The Ice Cream Bandit" wrote in message
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NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object

The discovery of a mysterious object in our solar system is the topic of
a listen-and-log-on news briefing on Monday, March 15, at 1 p.m. EST.

Dr. Michael Brown, associate professor of planetary astronomy,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. will present his
discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun. He
and colleagues made the discovery as part of a NASA-funded research
project.



2004 DW?
Some info:

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/2004dw/

I don't think so. This one is smaller than Pluto. They're calling it
"Sedna".

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm:

2003 VB16
Between 750-1500 miles across (1/2 to the same size as Pluto).
Currently 90 AU away (AU=Earth's distance from Sun); orbit could take it
more than 10 times farther out. Its distance is farther than the
theoretical limit of the Kuiper belt, so it may be a different kind
of object. Maybe another planet?


Let me consult the crop circles...

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2...well2003a.html

No, it appears to be a very large ice cube. Perhaps a micro comet. Or a large
interplanetary dust bunny. One can never be absolutely sure about these things,
but if it is all a part of the "We are sorry about the blankets OK? Here have
a planet" thing, then I suppose if that is the best we can do.


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