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From: "Ron Baalke"
To: "Minor Planet Mailing List"
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: {MPML} Re: 2003 UB313


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> Mike Brown and his team are claiming discovery of a 10th planet:
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> http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/index.html
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> Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Discover a 10th Planet Beyond Pluto
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> The planet, with the current temporary name 2003 UB313, was
> discovered in an ongoing survey at Palomar Observatory´s Samuel
> Oschin telescope by astronomers Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad
> Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz
> (Yale University). We have proposed a name to the IAU and
> will announce it when that name is accepted.
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> It is bigger than Pluto!!!
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> Usually when we find these we don´t know their size for certain,
> only lower limits. The lower limit to this object is the size of
> Pluto. This object is at least the size of Pluto and likely a bit
> larger.
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> Check back for more information as we post it over the weekend.
>
> Note that this object is NOT 2003 EL61, announced yesterday by Jose
> Ortiz.
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