"Unusual" Object in Solar System ... What is it?

[toadspittle]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_n04040_solar_object.html

**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.

So … Rendevous with Rama, or just the most distant Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud snowball?

[Feit_C_Taj]

Rupert has been found!

[Cervaise]

Planet 10!

[Fritz_The_Cat]

It’s a giant cue ball. Just orbiting and waiting for the right time to move in and hit the earth.

[Podkayne]

When I first read the headline, I thought perhaps it could be a Planet X deal, but naw, Brown’s a KBO guy. It’s most likely just another dirty snowball. If it’s a distant dirty snowball, then it’s got to be a big dirty snowball in order to be detected. Maybe he’s found something bigger than Pluto, which will bring up the whole annoying Is-Pluto-a-Planet stink again.

Bah.

Signed,
Podkayne,
Planetary Astronomy Killjoy.

[Mangetout]

Footfall

[Cervaise]

Is it from Klendathu? EVERYBODY OUT OF BUENOS AIRES!

[Evil_Captor]

So that’s where Waldo went…

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Does it have 3 heads? And 2 tail? With wings?

If so, we’re in deep do-do, baby! Click HERE.

[RandomLetters]

@Mangetout

Footfall

We better get the nuclear bomb powered space ship under construction then.

[Ale]

Damn!, they´ve found me out! :eek:

[Ranchoth]

First reference!

[GIGObuster]

@Podkayne

When I first read the headline, I thought perhaps it could be a Planet X deal, but naw, Brown’s a KBO guy. It’s most likely just another dirty snowball. If it’s a distant dirty snowball, then it’s got to be a big dirty snowball in order to be detected. Maybe he’s found something bigger than Pluto, which will bring up the whole annoying Is-Pluto-a-Planet stink again.

Bah.

Signed,
Podkayne,
Planetary Astronomy Killjoy.

Well, if that is so, it will confirm what we suspected for a long time: Pluto IS a Mickey Mouse planet.

[acaveman]

God only knows what it is. Probably faked like the Mar’s pics. :rolleyes:

The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!!!

I will be looking there on Monday, though. thanks for the heads up.