There's some interesting Sociology of Astronomers going on with the anouncement. The announcement of EL61 basically forced these guys to announce UB313.
The other interesting tidbit is that this group headed by Mike Brown had code named these objects "Santa Claus," "Easter Bunny," and "Xena," which one could find out by looking at their proposals for time on the Hubble Space Telescope. We had a field day here at work Friday afternoon speculating on the nature of those objects.
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Sociology of Astronomy
Date: 2005-08-01 04:19 pm (UTC)The other interesting tidbit is that this group headed by Mike Brown had code named these objects "Santa Claus," "Easter Bunny," and "Xena," which one could find out by looking at their proposals for time on the Hubble Space Telescope. We had a field day here at work Friday afternoon speculating on the nature of those objects.