[escepticos] descubierto nuevo planeta

["Richi" <chiri189@...>]

O al menos esa es la noticia del times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1038907,00.html


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            American scientists were expected to announce today that they
had found a new "planet" in our solar system. A 10th heavenly body has been
spotted orbiting the Earth.



            After sightings by the Hubble Telescope and the Spitzer Space
Telescope, the American space agency Nasa is expected to unveil its latest
find. Announcing the discovery of "a mysterious object" Nasa said it would
present the "discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the
Sun".

            The find was made by Dr Michael Brown, an associate professor of
planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena,
Nasa said. It added that the discovery was part of a Nasa-funded research
project.

            The object has been named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the
ocean. The body is believed to be about 1,250 miles across, but may even be
larger than the furthest known planet, Pluto, which is 1,406 miles across
and was discovered in 1930.

            Scientists believe the new world is 6.2 billion miles from Earth
in a region of space known as the Kuiper Belt, which contains hundreds of
other known bodies.

            Whether the new discovery can be called a planet is likely to be
debated by astro-physicists for months or even years to come. Many bodies of
rock and ice exist in the region and there is still

            some argument over whether Pluto is a real "planet".


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      Salu2

      Richi