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"It's definitely bigger than Pluto."
The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego.
The observatory itself has been closed as an observatory for a number of years because of the sprawl and lights from San Diego. There is a placard on the door stating this. You can still go inside and see the telescope etc. There is also a small museum with a sometimes open souvenir shop in an ante room structure nearby and there you can receive confirmation that the observatory is not used. I believe that the last time I was there was in 2000. The grounds were in disarray with weeds and overgrown grass. The paint was chipping and peeling from the observatory walls.
The observatory is home to five telescopes that are nightly used for a wide variety of astronomical research programs.
Originally posted by dragnet53
reply to post by Darkstar2
Eris is even located near the eastern sky at my location via Stellarium. I tried locating it via google sky map on my android and got nothing. I even contacted google about it and no answer as I have stated in one post. Why is stellarium the only software allowed to track this thing? I tried Sedna and got nothing though.
[edit on 29-8-2010 by dragnet53]
[sedna]
name = Sedna
parent = Sun
radius = 1000
oblateness = 0.0
albedo = 0.689
lighting = true
orbit_visualization_period = 0.428
halo = true
color = 1.0,1.0,1.0
tex_halo = star16x16.png
tex_map = nomap.png
coord_func = comet_orbit
orbit_Epoch = 2455400.5
orbit_MeanAnomaly = 358.0159868124404
orbit_SemiMajorAxis = 518.5716659088396
orbit_Eccentricity = 0.8527467433100689
orbit_ArgOfPericenter = 311.020082096735
orbit_AscendingNode = 144.2682681439387
orbit_Inclination = 11.92711532526402
Originally posted by dragnet53
reply to post by stereologist
LOL I myself hate to say but the ignore feature is sounding better and better.