"surprise discovery" in the outer Solar System

"surprise discovery" in the outer Solar System

Paolo View Member Profile	Mar 25 2014, 03:42 PM Post #1
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Paolo "surprise discovery" in the outer Solar System Mar 25 2014, 03:42 PM

ngunn Great! Just 24 hours left to play "What w... Mar 25 2014, 05:42 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 25 2014, 06:42 PM) My ... Mar 25 2014, 06:24 PM

Gerald Quite a list. Just to mention a couple of them: IS... Mar 25 2014, 06:33 PM

JRehling The news is online, if you want to search around. ... Mar 26 2014, 04:54 PM

Paolo detection of the first Oort cloud object. or a bet... Mar 25 2014, 06:48 PM

john_s I heard a rumor, which if substantiated, makes thi... Mar 25 2014, 09:16 PM

dvandorn For those of us in the U.S., BRT (Brazillian time)... Mar 25 2014, 09:47 PM

Explorer1 Well, it's on Wikipedia so the centaur is out ... Mar 25 2014, 10:20 PM

Gerald QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Mar 25 2014, 11:20 PM)... Mar 26 2014, 12:32 AM

Paolo QUOTE (Gerald @ Mar 26 2014, 01:32 AM) Th... Mar 26 2014, 06:36 AM

ngunn OK the wish lists were interesting, now the guessw... Mar 25 2014, 10:25 PM

Explorer1 You're getting warmer ngunn... Want a few more... Mar 25 2014, 10:33 PM

ngunn Thanks, but no. I'm happy to wait. What's ... Mar 25 2014, 10:44 PM

tasp Secondary occultation(s) ?? Mar 26 2014, 12:11 AM

climber Soccer Wold Cup will be in Brasil this year...but ... Mar 26 2014, 12:38 AM

Explorer1 Alan Stern has a few more details: https://twitter... Mar 26 2014, 01:48 AM

Paolo from the buzz over twitter, I think I will monitor... Mar 26 2014, 06:18 AM

centsworth_II So, no chance a wily research group added then del... Mar 26 2014, 06:50 AM

remcook These people do stellar occultations, so I'm t... Mar 26 2014, 07:58 AM

machi It looks that we can expect two big discoveries fr... Mar 26 2014, 02:07 PM

nprev <taps foot impatiently>…<waits for OFFICI... Mar 26 2014, 02:49 PM

elakdawalla Well, the embargo has officially broken on one of ... Mar 26 2014, 04:17 PM

Lucas Emily, Have you tried the JPL small-body databa... Mar 26 2014, 04:57 PM

Explorer1 Here's an article about this second one: http:... Mar 26 2014, 04:24 PM

Phil Stooke Nooooooo! Surely a planet that big would have... Mar 26 2014, 04:46 PM

elakdawalla QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 26 2014, 09:46 A... Mar 26 2014, 04:55 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 26 2014, 11:55 A... Mar 26 2014, 06:59 PM

Gerald QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Mar 26 201... Mar 26 2014, 08:15 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (Gerald @ Mar 26 2014, 02:15 PM) A ... Mar 26 2014, 09:05 PM

ngunn The upper limit of the perihelion of any putative ... Mar 26 2014, 08:57 PM

alan QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Mar 26 2014, 11:24 AM)... Mar 26 2014, 05:09 PM

Gerald According to my watch the embargo should be over n... Mar 26 2014, 06:03 PM

Paolo ESO release: rings around Chariklo http://www.eso.... Mar 26 2014, 06:05 PM

alan http://www.nature.com/news/asteroids-can-h...ngs-t... Mar 26 2014, 06:16 PM

Lucas I entered the orbital elements into Celestia and r... Mar 26 2014, 06:19 PM

elakdawalla That's a nice diagram, thanks; I will use it... Mar 26 2014, 06:44 PM

Phil Stooke I'm surprised that the trajectories of the Pio... Mar 26 2014, 07:33 PM

siravan I think Voyagers cannot detect small gravitational... Mar 26 2014, 08:07 PM

nprev Gotta say that I much favor the close stellar appr... Mar 26 2014, 08:16 PM

0101Morpheus I am also intrigued by how close the new object is... Mar 26 2014, 08:41 PM

Phil Stooke http://sci.esa.int/cluster/43018-beamed-ra...ion-f... Mar 26 2014, 08:47 PM

Gerald QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 26 2014, 09:47 P... Mar 26 2014, 09:25 PM

elakdawalla So after talking to Hal Levison, I have to dial ba... Mar 26 2014, 09:32 PM

alan The the extended data tables and figures in the Na... Mar 26 2014, 09:43 PM

centsworth_II What I find most surprising is how this thread, st... Mar 26 2014, 09:55 PM

nprev Well, in all fairness most of us anyhow had no ide... Mar 26 2014, 10:18 PM

centsworth_II My sympathies for the ESO group more concern them ... Mar 26 2014, 10:36 PM

TheAnt QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Mar 26 2014, 11:36... Mar 27 2014, 08:32 PM

ngunn I would suggest that "surprise discovery... Mar 26 2014, 11:26 PM

Gerald As far as I can see, both discoveries are covered ... Mar 26 2014, 11:29 PM

J.J. Speaking for myself, I find Chariklo's rings f... Mar 27 2014, 03:09 PM

ngunn It was first observed in 2012. A year or so of fol... Mar 27 2014, 08:41 PM

TheAnt Thank you ngunn, that's right. Mar 27 2014, 08:54 PM

ngunn I want to comment on the twin rings of Chariklo. I... Mar 27 2014, 11:53 PM

TheAnt QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 28 2014, 12:53 AM) A s... Mar 28 2014, 02:49 AM

Hungry4info I'm not convinced tidal effects would cause th... Mar 28 2014, 02:55 AM

dvandorn However, if the original moon had been mostly pulv... Mar 28 2014, 04:21 AM

TheAnt Yes that's what I meant but did not say clearl... Mar 28 2014, 11:48 AM

NGC3314 With regard to the double rings of Chariklo - anyb... Mar 30 2014, 09:15 PM

Mongo I suppose that this can go in this thread, althoug... Jun 4 2014, 01:39 AM

scalbers In terms of visual magnitude, if an Earth size pla... Jun 9 2014, 07:49 PM

Vultur Are these objects supposed to be too cold for WISE... Jun 10 2014, 03:19 AM

Mongo Kevin Luhman reported that WISE found that no undi... Jun 10 2014, 01:32 PM

Hungry4info Some clues to the composition of the rings of Char... Jul 18 2014, 01:06 AM

Hungry4info And now evidence of a ring system around Chiron. ... Jan 27 2015, 12:07 AM

TheAnt That's a tiny ring system compared to this one... Jan 27 2015, 12:51 AM

Paolo I finally had time to read the paper today and I w... Mar 17 2015, 06:49 PM

TheAnt A new hypothesis for the origin of Sedna it is spe... Jun 20 2015, 01:08 PM

ngunn QUOTE (TheAnt @ Jun 20 2015, 02:08 PM) A ... Jun 21 2015, 08:32 AM

ZLD If that is true, I believe Sedna should move to on... Jun 20 2015, 03:58 PM

SFJCody I think we should wait for the results from next g... Jun 20 2015, 04:50 PM

Paolo in his book "50 years on the space frontier... Jun 27 2015, 09:19 AM

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