Re: Planet X Sighting Efforts 1

In Article  <[email protected]> Michael Cunningham wrote:
> IRAS did NOT observe any planets and there is extensive 
> data to prove this in spite of your claim. See...
> http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html

Then what DID the IRAS discover, in 1983, the basis of the Dec 31, 1983
Washington Post front page article?  Something, clearly. 

In Article <[email protected]> Mike Dworetsky wrote:
> The object in question was eventually identified as a denser
> knot of "interstellar cirrus" in Taurus (not in Orion but a bit 
> to the west) while the other objects the team were interested in 
> were identified as infra-red-bright galaxies.
>
> The object was designated as 0412+085 in Houck J.R. et al, 
> Astrophysical Journal Letters vol 278, p L63, 1984 and reported 
> as infrared cirrus in Houck, J.R. et al, Astrophysical Journal 
> Letters vol 290, p. L5, 1985.  The other objects, as the article 
> stresses, were identified as very faint galaxies.

So they went on an infrared search, IN that direction, and FOUND what
they were looking for, and were so EXCITED it hit the front pages ...
and it was just a faint galaxy?