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- From: frodet@brosme.dhmolde.no (Frode Tennebo)
- Subject: New planet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.092930.24684@ugle.unit.no>
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- Sender: frodet@brosme (Frode Tennebo)
- Reply-To: frodet@brosme.dhmolde.no (Frode Tennebo)
- Organization: Computer Science - DhMolde Norway
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:29:30 GMT
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- Astronomers at the 2.2-meter-telescope at Mauna Kea have recently
- discovered a new planet in the solarsystem, which ut to this time has been
- unknown. The planet, which has temporarily has been named 1992 QB1
- (where those astronomers get their names from beats me), is more than six
- billion kilometers (app. 5.56 light-hours) away and orbits slowly around
- the sun outside the orbit of Pluto.
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- 1992 QB1 is much smaller than Pluto, perhaps only 200 kilometers in
- diameter. Pluto has a diameter of 2400 km.
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- I don't know HOW new this information is and if it is common knowledge
- "out there", but if anybody has more information about this planet, I,
- and probably more with me, will be most interested.
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- * Frode Tennebo * It's better to live life in *
- * email: frodet@brosme.dhmolde.no * wealth and die poor, than live *
- * snail: Parkv. 44, 6400 Molde, NORWAY * life in poverty and die rich. *
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