Scientists hail tenth planet
ASTRONOMERS today confirmed the discovery of a tenth planet in orbit around the sun.
The largest object found in our solar system since Neptune was discovered in 1846, it was first seen in 2003 but has only now been confirmed as a planet.
Designated 2003 UB313, at about 3000km from pole to pole the world of rock and ice is much larger than Pluto.
It is currently nine billion miles away from the sun.
"This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system," said Michael Brown, of the California Institute of Technology.
Source: Scotsman.com
I wonder whether they’ll find intelligent life on this one, because they’ve failed to find any on the last 9.

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