Seventeen Including Sedna

By
the Dowbrigades’s unofficial count, this is at least the eighth time they
have discovered a 10th planet. Do they keep discovering the same one
over and over, or are there really SEVENTEEN planets?

Scientists in the
United States were expected to announce today that they had found
a new "planet" in our solar system, after spotting
a 10th heavenly body orbiting the sun.

After sightings by the Hubble telescope and the Spitzer space telescope,
Nasa has announced that it would present the"discovery of the most
distant object ever detected orbiting the sun".

The find was made by Dr Michael Brown, associate professor of planetary
astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, who
is working on a Nasa-funded
project, the organisation said.

The object has been named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the ocean.

from the
Guardian