Donald Savage/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington (Phone: 202/358-1547/1726) Jane Platt Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-0880) March 12, 2004 NOTE TO EDITORS : N04-040 NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object The discovery of a mysterious object in our solar system is the topic of a listen-and-log-on news briefing on Monday, March 15, at 1 p.m. EST. Dr. Michael Brown, associate professor of planetary astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. will present his discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun. He and colleagues made the discovery as part of a NASA-funded research project. The...