Amazing Astronomical Discovery

Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Quadibloc wrote in
:

Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in
his field of view, and reported the discovery without checking
if it was just a well-known planet.

Oops.

Since Quaddie wasn't bright enough to include a link:

http://bgr.com/2018/03/22/mars-disco...mers-telegram/

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:20:19 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:

Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Wow. He'll _never_ live that one down. Poor guy.
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On Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:20:23 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Must be a pretty poor 80mm refractor.

On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:48:07 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:20:23 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Must be a pretty poor 80mm refractor.

Or it was a really crappy night, seeing-wise... or, he was using way too much power and everything was a blob... or, he had a really crappy mount and everything was bouncing all over the place... or, like most astronomy professors I've ever known, his visual observing experience is essentially zero and he doesn't really know the night sky very well (which would be my best guess in this case)...

On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 11:20:23 AM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Posting from my cell. Here's an URL now:

https://www.livescience.com/62094-as...vers-mars.html

in addition to the one already supplied.

John Savard

On Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:59:27 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:48:07 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:20:23 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
Our Solar System now has a fourth planet!

Yes, an astronomer encountered an unexpected bright object in his field
of view, and reported the discovery without checking if it was just a
well-known planet.

Oops.

Must be a pretty poor 80mm refractor.

Or it was a really crappy night, seeing-wise... or, he was using way too much power and everything was a blob... or, he had a really crappy mount and everything was bouncing all over the place... or, like most astronomy professors I've ever known, his visual observing experience is essentially zero and he doesn't really know the night sky very well (which would be my best guess in this case)...

They should stick to processing numerical data.