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Author: * Neima Nebet -
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Date: Aug 30, 2005 - 14:48
It's been named after the warrior princess. But the only fighting
involved with Xena is between scientists, bitterly divided as to
whether she is our latest planet, or just a jumped-up asteroid
Robin McKie, Sunday July 31, 2005, The Observer
Astronomers have found a new world orbiting the Sun. The giant lump of rock and ice is larger than the planet Pluto and is now the farthest known object in the solar system.
The discovery was announced by US scientists yesterday and the object has unofficially been named Xena, after the TV series starring Lucy
Lawless. 'We have always wanted to name something Xena,' said Michael
Brown, a member of the team that made the discovery using telescopes
at the Palomar Observatory, outside San Diego, California.
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