Today is Sunday, and NASA has big news to release but it won't release it untill tommorrow, the lazy assed press isn't going to pick up on it till after the official press release. This is because they don't need reporters and editors working more than 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. At any rate, there is a press release anouncement on NASA web space. That Monday 12:00 CST they will have a phone in Press Conference to announce:
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.
However The Australian apparently showed a little initiative and reported the story. Apparently they went to the source (Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology) and got the story. The new planet is almost 2000 Kilometers in diameter and is made up of ice and snow. It even has a name, Sedna. Sedna is controversial even before it is officially announced. Some atronomers feel that it isn't big enough to be a planet, that even pluto was misclassified. Hopefully we will learn more tommorrow, there are even supposed to be picures available, most likely they won't be very detailed.
Sedna is the biggest object discovered in the solar system in 74 years.
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