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Titolo: Caltech astronomer finds solar system's 10th planet (Reuters)

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Am.
 Caltech astronomer finds solar system's 10th planet
By Gina Keating  Fri Jul 29, 9:50 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California astronomer has discovered what he 
believes is the 10th planet in our solar system, a group of NASA-funded 
researchers said on Friday.
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The new planet, known as 2003UB313, has been identified as the most 
distant object ever detected orbiting the sun, California Institute of 
Technology astronomer Michael Brown said.
Brown and colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz have submitted 
a name for the planet to the International Astronomical Union and are 
confident it will be designated a planet. Brown did not reveal the 
proposed name.
The procedure for approving the new planet is somewhat hazy as no new 
bodies have received that designation since Pluto was discovered in 
1930, Brown said.
"We hope that it's fairly noncontroversial among those who believe 
Pluto is a planet," Brown said. "I would say get out your pens and 
start rewriting the textbooks today."
The planet is located about 9.7 billion miles from the sun and is about 
1 1/2 times the size of Pluto, the researchers said.
The new planet orbits the sun once every 560 years and is now at its 
farthest point from Earth, he said. In about 280 years, the planet will 
be as close as Neptune, he said.
Like Pluto, the object's surface is believed to be predominantly 
methane, but its size -- about 1,700 miles in diameter -- qualifies it 
as a planet, Brown said. Earth is about 7,900 miles in diameter.
The new planet is believed to be part of the Kuiper Belt, a large ring 
of icy objects that orbit beyond Neptune and are believed to be 
remnants of the material that formed the solar system.
Brown said the new planet was detected in January by the Samuel Oschin 
Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego.
The Caltech team, funded in part by NASA, had been waiting to announce 
the find until they had completed their studies, but changed their 
minds after a hacker threatened to go public with their data, Brown 
said.
Their finding comes a day after a Spanish team of astronomers announced 
the discovery of another relatively large object orbiting in the solar 
system's outer reaches. That object, Brown said, was about 
three-quarters the size of Pluto.
The new planet went undiscovered for so long because its orbit is 
tilted at a 45-degree angle to the orbital plane of the other planets, 
and travels in an elliptical orbit, Brown said.
The team had been scanning the skies with the 48-inch (120-cm) 
telescope for five years, searching for large bodies orbiting in higher 
planes than that of the Earth and other planets.
The new planet is so far away that an observer standing on its surface 
could cover the view of the sun with the head of a pin, Brown said. It 
was sufficiently bright, however, for amateur astronomers to track it 
in the early morning sky, he said.
Am.
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 NASA-funded researchers said on Friday.
*ROTFL*
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Un pianeta scoperto nel 2002 (Quaoar), riscoperto nel 2004 (Sedna) e ora
ri-riscoperto nel 2005 :)
Ma d'altronde chi poteva credere a simili stupidaggini se non il nostro
caro *FESSO* Amalric Bond? :)
-Stefano

 ri-riscoperto nel 2005 :)
Se lo sapevo ti c'avrei spedito prima. Comunque l'anagramma funziona: 
Sedna of Cesari.
Am.
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Fede: Credere senza prove a ciň che viene detto da uno che parla senza 
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Se lo sapevo ti c'avrei spedito prima.
Meglio che ti ci muovi tu su quel pianeta cosi' il prossimo lo
chiameranno "*FESSO*" in tuo onore :)
*LOL*
-Stefano