Press Conference in Brazil to Announce Discovery in Outer Solar System

[Ichingcarpenter]

An international team of astronomers, led by Felipe Braga-Ribas (Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), has used telescopes at seven locations in South America, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, to make a surprise discovery in the outer Solar System.

This unexpected result raises several unanswered questions and is expected to provoke much debate. A press conference will be held in Brazil to present the new results and allow opportunities for questions.

Note that all information regarding these findings is under strict embargo until 19:00 CET (15:00 BRT) on Wednesday 26 March 2014.

When: The conference will be held on 26 March 2014 at 14:30 local time (BRT) and will take place in Portuguese with a summary in English.

http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann14021/

anyone know what they found?

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Found a humous tweet on it.

Voyager 1 denied visa to enter outer solar system #ESOrumors

[Warpy]

2. With luck, whatever is perturbing the Oort Cloud

with a side helping of "not dangerous."

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Pluto will have another identity crisis

if they discover a brown dwarf. Good thing we have a craft on its way out there maybe it can spot something too.

[tridim]

6. Brown dwarfs are suns that never began fusion, no?

If so, I'm pretty sure we would have already seen it with the naked eye.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. sufficiently old brown dwarfs will be too faint to be detectable.

type y to type z



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

[tridim]

8. Right, but even at the edge of our solar system...

If it is in orbit, it would be illuminated by our Sun just like Jupiter, at least enough that we couldn't miss it.

I'm going with, probably not a brown dwarf.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. How about a red dwarf?

[lob1]

3. CNN's psychic says it's about the missing airplane.

[DetlefK]

5. After the plane coverage, CNN's ratings will vanish in a Black Hole.

[Bosonic]

10. My random guess is :

"Brazlian researchers discover asteroid with rings"

"The European Southern Observatory announced this week the discovery of rings around an asteroid 1.4 billion miles from Earth. Chariklo is the largest of the class of asteroids orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus known as Centaurs."

[WillyT]

11. Here Ya Go:

Link: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-new-oort-cloud-dwarf-planet-20140326,0,5125625.story

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. I just posted the ESO released news on LBN

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1410/


Anyway, I think its rather an unusual find considering why accretion ring didn't happened with Earth
Thanks for the link.