Re: Planet X: HEAT from NASA et al

In Article  <f0b30c00.0204272327.5a1f9b19@posting.google.com> Jeff Root wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:20:56 -0600 (MDT), ravell@webtv.net wrote:
>> Notice how the distances match what Neugebauer and others in
>> the 1983 articles speculated about the distant unknown object(s).
>
> I don't know who Neugebauer is/was ... 
> No big deal.  Not even a little deal.
 
Washington Post
Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered, a front page story
31-Dec-1983

    A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet 
    Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be
    part of this solar system has been found in the 
    direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting 
    telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical 
    satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers
    do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby
    "protostar" that never got hot enough to become a 
    star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in
    the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so 
    shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its 
    stars ever gets through. "All I can tell you is that we 
    don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS 
    chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion 
    Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory
    for the California Institute of Technology said in an 
    interview.

That Neugebauer.  And it was a big enough deal to hit the front page of
the Washington Post.