New Kuiper Belt object

See: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Headlines.html
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K04/K04D15.html

The 2:3 Neptune-resonance orbit keeps the object more than 18 AU from
Neptune over a 14 000-year period.

Frequently Asked Questions About 2004 DW
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/2004dw/

New Kuiper Belt object
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004...ar_object.html

Donald Savage/Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1547/1726)

Jane Platt
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-0880)


March 12,
2004
NOTE TO EDITORS : N04-040


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.

The virtual news briefing is only for reporters. Reporters in the
United States can listen to the briefing and participate in the
question-and-answer session by calling: 888/889-1963. Overseas
media may call: 1/773/756-4808. Calls to these lines should start at
12:50 p.m. EST. The passcode is: "objects."

Graphics supporting this news briefing will be posted Monday on
the Internet by 1 p.m. EST:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media...04-05/telecon/

Images and information about this discovery will be on the
Internet at:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media...ses/ssc2004-05
&
http://www.nasa.gov