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"surprise discovery" in the outer Solar System
Paolo
post Mar 25 2014, 03:42 PM
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to be announced tomorrow at ESO
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post Mar 25 2014, 09:47 PM
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For those of us in the U.S., BRT (Brazillian time) is one hour ahead of EDT. The presser is supposed to be at 2:30pm BRT, so it will be at 1:30pm EDT, 12:30pm CDT, 11:30am MDT and 10:30am PDT. That works out to 5:30pm UTC, for those of you across the pond.

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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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