Hi, Ron, List,
Brown's website is already giving Ortiz credit for 2003 EL61, in the
official discoverer sense. Ortiz
announced first; end of story.
Besides, Brown has a bunch of "planets" of his own AND all those bottles of
champagne to drink...
Sterling Webb
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Ron Baalke wrote:
> >
> > Were there two KBOs announced today, or just one under two numbers? There
> > seems to be confusion on
> > the point.
> >
>
> There were three new large KBOs announced: 2003 EL61, 2003 UB313,
> and 2005 KY9.
>
> All three were discovered by Mike Brown's team, and were in fact
> being observed for several months. Yesterday's announcement was
> about 2003 EL61, independently discovered by the group in Spain.
>
> Ron Baalke
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