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In article <1993Jan25.092930.24684@ugle.unit.no> frodet@brosme.dhmolde.no (Frode Tennebo) writes:
>
>Astronomers at the 2.2-meter-telescope at Mauna Kea have recently
>discovered a new planet in the solarsystem, which ut to this time has been
>unknown. The planet, which has temporarily has been named 1992 QB1
>(where those astronomers get their names from beats me), is more than six
>billion kilometers (app. 5.56 light-hours) away and orbits slowly around
>the sun outside the orbit of Pluto.
>
>1992 QB1 is much smaller than Pluto, perhaps only 200 kilometers in
>diameter. Pluto has a diameter of 2400 km.


	What an exciting discovery! But is this really "planet number
	ten", or, if it is only 200 km across, does it count as an
	asteroid rather than a planet?





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