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- From: jw@contrast.wlink.nl (Jan-Willem Stekelenburg)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: New Planet ?
- Message-ID: <725192412.AA00896@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:33:00
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
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- Open hailing frequencies: Greetings All !
-
- Today, I read an article in a local fidonet group about a newly discovered
- planet:
-
- >American astronomers have successfully made pictures of a new planet that
- was
- >discovered in a remote area of our solar system. The planet has a reddish
- >>color and has a diameter of 200 km. The two scientist who discovered the
- >>planet, both from the University of Hawaii, are admirers of the British
- >writer >John Le Carre, and have proposed to name the planet 'Smiley', after
- >George >Smiley, one of the heroes featuring in the detective stories of le
- >Carre. >Since the planets discovery in August 1992, astronomers of the
- >European >Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chili have also succeeded in
- >photographing >the object.
-
- >The official name of the object is 1992QB1. It's circling at almost 6 biljon
- >kilometers distance from our sun. This means 1992QB1 lies just outside of
- the
- >orbit of Pluto en needs 262 years for a complete circle around the sun.
-
- [...]
-
- >Source: EOS Magazine, no. 1, Januari 1993.
-
- (Thanx Leendert)
-
- Is this just old news that I didn't know about? Does anyone have any info on
- this planet?
-
-
- ***** Regards, Jan-Willem. *****
-
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