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Astronomers Report 10th Planet Far Beyond Pluto

"It is bigger than Pluto!!!"

Astronomer Michael Brown of Cal Tech wrote at his website.

"And it's not planetoid 2003EL61 announced yesterday,"

also by Brown's group.

Tenth planet, 2003UB313, photographed above in the white circle by Palomar Observatory astronomers lead by Michael Brown, Ph.D., from CalTech, was discovered for the first time on January 8, 2005, at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope which took this image.
Tenth planet, 2003UB313, photographed above in the white circle by Palomar Observatory astronomers lead by Michael Brown, Ph.D., from CalTech, was discovered for the first time on January 8, 2005, at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope which took this image.

July 30, 2005 Pasadena, California - Brown had hoped to confirm the object's size before public disclosure. But late last night at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, he made a rushed announcement after his astronomy team, including Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale University), learned that a hacker had broken into their data with the idea of making "the tenth planet" discovery public first. Beyond 2003UB313, it has no other name yet, but a "more melodious name" was submitted to the International Astronomical Union in Paris for approval. It might have "Lila" in it, since Michael Brown has a 3-week-old daughter named Lila.

 

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Bentwaters and Rendlesham Forest Mystery Beyond December 1980

“I think the thing (cylinder-shaped UFO) was a couple of football fields long.  That's how big this thing was. The underside was dark and had square shapes on it.”- Steve LaPlume, Former USAF 1st Class Airman, RAF Bentwaters 

 

The joint United States and British Royal Air Force Base at RAF Bentwaters near Woodbridge and the Rendlesham Forest northeast of Ipswich near England's southeastern coast. 
The joint United States and British Royal Air Force Base at RAF Bentwaters near Woodbridge and the Rendlesham Forest northeast of Ipswich near England's southeastern coast.

July 29, 2005 - Ashburnham, Massachusetts - Three years ago on November 29, 2002, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) released for the first time officially 180 pages that had been kept from the public for 22 years. The file subject was the several UFO sightings at Rendlesham Forest near RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters at the end of December 1980. One of the declassified documents began with different dates than the current consensus of December 26 - 28, 1980; however, there is a possibility that yet another UFO event occurred on December 29, 1980, referenced in the Ministry of Defence memo further below.

 

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First Data from Deep Impact Crash Into Comet Tempel I

This image shows the view from Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft as it turned back to look at comet Tempel 1. Fifty minutes earlier, the spacecraft's probe had been run over by the comet. That collision kicked up plumes of ejected material, seen here streaming away from the back side of the comet. This image was taken by the flyby craft's high-resolution camera. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD.
This image shows the view from Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft as it turned back to look at comet Tempel 1. Fifty minutes earlier, the spacecraft's probe had been run over by the comet. That collision kicked up plumes of ejected material, seen here streaming away from the back side of the comet. This image was taken by the flyby craft's high-resolution camera. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD.

July 10, 2005  Austin, Texas - Astronomer Anita Cochran has been working at the University of Texas since 1982. Now she is a senior research scientist and Assistant Director of the McDonald Observatory in Austin. She and several hundred scientists around the world are helping to analyze the spectral data from the Deep Impact crash with Comet Tempel I on July 3 to 4, 2005. That night, Dr. Cochran was in Hawaii at the Kech I telescope, the largest in the world, watching to see if a light flare at the moment the impactor hit the very dim magnitude 11 comet could be seen.

 

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July 3-4, 2005: NASA “Deep Impact” Spacecraft to Blast Hole in Comet Temple I

Top: Deep Impact lifted off January 12, 2005, at 1:47:08.574 PM ET from pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, bound for Comet Tempel 1. Image courtesy NASA. Bottom: Arrow points to Comet Tempel 1 photographed on December 11, 2004, by Observatoriode Begues, Spain. The plan is to create a crater by impacting the icy snowball on July 3-4, 2005, to see what it's made of. Image from Observatorio de Begues.
Top: Deep Impact lifted off January 12, 2005, at 1:47:08.574 PM ET from pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, bound for Comet Tempel 1. Image courtesy NASA. Bottom: Arrow points to Comet Tempel 1 photographed on December 11, 2004, by Observatoriode Begues, Spain. The plan is to create a crater by impacting the icy snowball on July 3-4, 2005, to see what it's made of. Image from Observatorio de Begues.



 Schedule of Impact Events

- NASA TV coverage: Begins July 3, 8:30 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, PDTFor NASA TV, click on: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

- Expected time of impact with comet:
July 3, 10:52 p.m. PDT
11:52 p.m. MDT
July 4,  12:52 a.m. CDT
1:52 a.m. EDT

- NASA Post-impact briefing: July 4, 1 a.m. PDT
- NASA Post-impact press conference: July 4, 11 a.m. PDT

 

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Updated: More Than 3,000 Unusual Animal Deaths Reported in Argentina and Chile Since 2002

See Photos and Case Update in More Information below.

Specialists from Argentina's federal INTA agency (similar to USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service) are inspecting a mutilated cow in the La Pampa province in late June 2002. More than 100 mutilated cows and horses were reported to local authorities in seven provinces between April and June 2002. Image © 2002 by Rio Negro Online, Argentina.
Specialists from Argentina's federal INTA agency (similar to USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service) are inspecting a mutilated cow in the La Pampa province in late June 2002. More than 100 mutilated cows and horses were reported to local authorities in seven provinces between April and June 2002. Image © 2002 by Rio Negro Online, Argentina.
Map in which yellow indicates towns in provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires and Rio Negro where mutilations have occurred, especially La Pampa. Not shown on the map are other affected provinces further north: Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. Reported mutilation count since April 2002 is 2,150.
Map in which yellow indicates towns in provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires and Rio Negro where mutilations have occurred, especially La Pampa. Not shown on the map are other affected provinces further north: Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. Reported mutilation count since April 2002 is 2,150.
Typical La Pampa Province, Argentina, cow mutilation.
Typical La Pampa Province, Argentina, cow mutilation.

Updated June 23, 2005   Bradford, Pennsylvania - The number of unusual large animal deaths since 2002 in Argentina and Chile keeps climbing. I talked with Scott Corrales, Editor and Translator of Inexplicata, the Journal of Spanish Ufology, based in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Scott received his M. A. in Spanish Literature from Rutgers University. Scott's website, Inexplicata, provides Spanish-to-English translations about UFO-related incidents in Mexico, Central and South America.

 

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A Harmless Virus Kills Cancer Cells

June 24, 2005   Hershey, Pennsylvania - A scientist at Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania announced at a recent meeting of the American Society for Virology that his lab has killed cancer cells with a virus called "adeno-associated virus type 2," or AAV-2.

The AAV-2 virus has killed a variety of cancer cells in Petrie dishes investigated by Dr. Craig Meyers, Prof. of Microbiology and Immunology at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This cancer-killing virus infects 80% of the human population. If the AAV-2 virus is so prevalent, why isn't it killing cancers all the time in people? I asked Dr. Meyers what activates the virus to kill cancer cells in his laboratory?

 

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Mars Express Orbiter Finally Turns On Deep Ground-Penetrating Radar

Mars Express Orbiter with MARSIS radar antennae unfurled in orbit around Mars. Illustration by ESA.
Mars Express Orbiter with MARSIS radar antennae unfurled in orbit around Mars. Illustration by ESA.


June 23, 2005   Darmstadt, Germany - I learned something amazing today from the Mars Express Orbiter Spacecraft Operations Manager. He is Michel Denis based at the European Space Agency's office in Darmstadt, Germany. I was getting an update about the plans for the deep ground-penetrating radar on ESA's Mars Express Orbiter which was turned on for the first time at 3 p.m. Pacific. The amazing fact I learned was that a month ago on May 7th, the Mars Express Orbiter and NASA's two spacecraft, the Odyssey and the Mars Global Surveyor ­ could have collided!

 

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Vietnamese Doctor Studying H5N1 Bird Flu Falls Victim to Virus

June 21, 2005   Hanoi, Vietnam - This week the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in Hanoi reported that a medical doctor who has been taking samples from people diagnosed with the dangerous H5N1 virus, or bird flu, is now sick with the virus himself. The male doctor is in the hospital and his condition is reported as "stable." Since the H5N1 virus jumped from animals to humans in late 2003, thirty-eight Vietnamese patients have died. 

 

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CDC Reports First 2005 Human Case of West Nile Virus in Kansas

"In a CDC study to be published next month in July 2005, an estimated 10% of Americans who develop the most severe form of West Nile disease will have polio-like paralysis. Many patients are in their 30s to 50s. The growing paralysis problems are of great concern, as well as the death toll. Since 1999, CDC has counted more than 16,600 human cases and 654 deaths." - 060205 Earthfiles

Top: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Bottom: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.
Top: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Bottom: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.

     
June 21, 2005   Atlanta, Georgia - The Centers for Disease Control issued the following press release this week:

 

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West Nile and Bird Flu: Two Increasingly Dangerous Viruses

"I can't imagine anything more catastrophic effecting the human race today than a pandemic of H5N1 influenza around the world. ...Anywhere from 180 to 360 million people could die from this particular strain of virus."

- Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

June 2, 2005   Minneapolis, Minnesota - 

West Nile Fever Virus

Left: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Right: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.
Left: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Right: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.

     
Dr. Henry Masur at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, D. C., told Associated Press this week that the West Nile Fever Virus working its way through the United States is more virulent than its viral cousin in Europe, Asia and Africa and "has caused more cases of paralysis than there were in many years of polio." By 2005, it has spread to nearly every state. 

 

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