Feb 2, 2006

Tenth Planet

Posted in Astronomy at 10:43 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Rather a coincidence that Hubble images of the so-called tenth planet “2003 UB313″ claiming that it’s probably not Pluto’s big brother at all but more like a slightly bigger twin, should be released the day before new results from German astronomers appear that show UB313 to be some 700 km wider!

Of course, the reporter covering the HST results will have known in advance (embargoed press release and all that) about the German results, but obviously wanted to scoop the story with another related item.

My sources tell me, however, that there are no authorized results from the HST measurement, as these will take another month to complete.

Watch out for my full report on the published, peer-reviewed work on UB313 in PSIgate Spotlight coming soon…

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