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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.")

Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found
New Scientist | 23 July 2005 (issue date) | Stuart Clark
Posted on 07/20/2005 10:54:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1447339/posts

in particular:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1447339/posts?page=16#16

14 posted on 12/30/2005 9:03:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")

Still another interesting blunder in message 11 -- I didn't post the actual URL in that link I built.

No Tenth Planet Yet From IRAS by Tom Chester