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No Tenth Planet Yet From IRAS by Tom Chester

12 posted on 12/30/2005 8:55:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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Hey, now this is an interesting blunder from the link in the preceding message:

"Paul Schlyter's great webpage giving the history and follow-up of most hypothetical planets (mirror site 1 and mirror site 2). Paul discusses the curious report of John Anderson of JPL, who in 1987 analyzed the motion of Pioneer 10 and 11 and found no evidence of any unknown gravity forces affecting those spacecraft, yet who concluded "that a tenth planet most likely exists" from that observation! This is sometimes confused with the IRAS mystery object as well, since an Astronomy magazine article in October 1982 mentioned them together."

An article in 1982 mentioned the 1987 analysis. Heh...


13 posted on 12/30/2005 8:58:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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