PICTURES NOW AVAILABLE from NASA News Briefing About "Unusual Solar Object"

James Oberg wrote:
Subject: PICTURES NOW AVAILABLE from NASA News Briefing About "Unusual Solar
Object"

The website
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media...ses/ssc2004-05
just went active a few minutes ago.

It shows graphics of the object called 'Sedna', dark-reddish in color, a bit
smaller than 1400-mile-diameter Pluto, it's 800 to 1100 miles across, half
the size of Earth's moon.

In a highly-elliptical orbit (unusual, yes!!) out beyond the 'Kuiper Belt'
of frozen objects... but not as far out as the Oort Cloud of comets.

Jim Oberg

www.jamesoberg.com



I could immediately tell the opening image was an artist's conception.
But I suspect some viewers wouldn't know. It should be more clearly labeled.

This is pretty exciting stuff.


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Hop David
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