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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: tenth planet
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 13:00:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 13:00:08 1986
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> > As I recall, Voyager (I or II) detected the tenth planet.  It lies
> > between Saturn and Uranus, and is rather small.  It has been named
> > Charon, (Roman god that paddles the boat across the River Styx, I
> > think)...
> 
> Charon is Pluto's moon, and was discovered by earth-based telescope.

He's thinking of Chiron, I think.  Charon is Pluto's moon.  Chiron is a,
well, an object, orbiting roughly between Saturn and Uranus.  It's too
small to qualify as a planet, really.  Nobody is entirely sure just what
it is, last I heard, although there is strong speculation that it may be
a sort of super-comet that got deflected into its present orbit.

I seem to recall that Chiron too was discovered from Earth.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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