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- From: juliand@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Julian Day)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: New planet
- Message-ID: <12557@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:43:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.092930.24684@ugle.unit.no>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1993Jan25.092930.24684@ugle.unit.no> frodet@brosme.dhmolde.no (Frode Tennebo) writes:
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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.
- >
- >1992 QB1 is much smaller than Pluto, perhaps only 200 kilometers in
- >diameter. Pluto has a diameter of 2400 km.
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- What an exciting discovery! But is this really "planet number
- ten", or, if it is only 200 km across, does it count as an
- asteroid rather than a planet?
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