One Find, Two Astronomers

Malacon writes "The New York Times is running a story about Debate Between Astronomers who both claim to have discovered the same object beyond Pluto, and almost the same size. Apparantly the US Astronomers had been tracking it for quite some time, but chose to not report it yet. They also claim the Spanish Astronomers stole data to make the find."

Comments

Re:Finders Keepers

[Smurf]

How about you just quit referring to us period?

We don't care about you, so do us a favor, and try not to care about us.

Jokes aside, the saddest thing is that for a disproportionate percentage of US citizens this is actually true. That's one of the things that depresses me most of living in this country: most of the people are not only blatantly ignorant about the rest of the world, but also don't really care about their ignorance.

One Topic, Two Slashdot Articles

[panaceaa]

Dupe.