Re: Planet X: HEAT from NASA et al
In Article <[email protected]> Jeff Root wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:20:56 -0600 (MDT), [email protected] wrote:
>> Notice how the distances match what Neugebauer and others in
>> the 1983 articles speculated about the distant unknown object(s).
>
> I don't know who Neugebauer is/was ...
> No big deal. Not even a little deal.
Washington Post
Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered, a front page story
31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet
Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be
part of this solar system has been found in the
direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting
telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical
satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers
do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby
"protostar" that never got hot enough to become a
star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in
the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so
shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its
stars ever gets through. "All I can tell you is that we
don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS
chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory
for the California Institute of Technology said in an
interview.
That Neugebauer. And it was a big enough deal to hit the front page of
the Washington Post.