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1 posted on 03/26/2014 7:59:38 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb

2 posted on 03/26/2014 8:00:50 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")

3 posted on 03/26/2014 8:00:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)

Reformatted. (my apologies)

An international team of astronomers, led by Felipe Braga-Ribas (Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), has used telescopes at seven locations in South America, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, to make a surprise discovery in the outer Solar System.

This unexpected result raises several unanswered questions and is expected to provoke much debate. A press conference will be held in Brazil to present the new results and allow opportunities for questions.

Note that all information regarding these findings is under strict embargo until 19:00 CET (15:00 BRT) on Wednesday 26 March 2014.

When: The conference will be held on 26 March 2014 at 14:30 local time (BRT) and will take place in Portuguese with a summary in English.

Who: The conference presenters are:

Felipe Braga-Ribas, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bruno Sicardy, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France

Prof. Roberto Martins, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Prof. Julio Camargo, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Where: The event takes place in Observatório Nacional, Auditório do Grupo de Pesquisas em Astronomia (GPA), in the GPA/LINEA Building in Rua General José Cristino, 77, Bairro de São Cristovão, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20921-400, Brazil.

4 posted on 03/26/2014 8:01:40 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)

“Send More Chuck Berry.”

9 posted on 03/26/2014 8:03:13 AM PDT by dfwgator

11 posted on 03/26/2014 8:04:02 AM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)

They found the missing jet?

15 posted on 03/26/2014 8:05:51 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%

16 posted on 03/26/2014 8:06:33 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)

17 posted on 03/26/2014 8:07:11 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)

I’m guessing here, but something about how our carbon footprint is f#cking up other galaxies.

18 posted on 03/26/2014 8:08:53 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")

19 posted on 03/26/2014 8:09:06 AM PDT by ohiobuckeye1997

The New Horizons team is due to make an announcement about a Kuiper belt object today. They say it isn’t about anything the NH craft will be visiting after the Pluto fly by.

20 posted on 03/26/2014 8:10:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

Well I better ping this so I can catch up later.

27 posted on 03/26/2014 8:14:32 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)

Wow,If you can keep me posted.Just learning my telescope now.:)

29 posted on 03/26/2014 8:15:41 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))

30 posted on 03/26/2014 8:16:07 AM PDT by dfwgator

If in the outer solar system it has to be pretty darn big to be visible from Earth.
Size of a small planet, yet it's not spherical.

My guesses are:
A recently broken up comet.
A computer glitch.
The mother ship that once colonized Earth.

31 posted on 03/26/2014 8:16:44 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)

32 posted on 03/26/2014 8:16:48 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")

It's the missing Malaysian plane.

The ghost of Bin laden told Putin to tell the Pakistanis to tell the Iranians to fly the plane into space because that's a better hiding spot.

35 posted on 03/26/2014 8:19:25 AM PDT by gdani

To: SpinnerWebb; All

Where's Johnny? (Carson) ..Think about it!

37 posted on 03/26/2014 8:20:52 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)

“Looks like you’ve got a Zorgon problem.”

42 posted on 03/26/2014 8:28:47 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)

Taking all Bets!

1. Another Giant Outer solar system Planet like Neptune
2. Another Giant Outer solar system Planet like Jupiter
3. A Brown Dwarf star that slowly orbits the sun
4. A Red Dwarf Star that slowly orbits the Sun (Nemesis)
5. Some sort of Comet or Kiper or Scattered disk impact event
6. Anything involving alien tech (mother ship, invasion fleet, Ancient Aliens tech)
7. Obama’s Birth Certificate
8. Elvis’s Spaceship
9. A mini black hole
10. Some sort of star trek like spacial anomaly

49 posted on 03/26/2014 8:35:24 AM PDT by GraceG

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