[meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)
From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 14 17:42:37 2006 Message-ID: <002e01c6d846$a7eaa180$5de18c46_at_ATARIENGINE> Hi, "Rights" and "credit" are neither right nor credible when stolen. "A week before Ortiz's discovery, on July 20, Brown et al. had published an abstract of a report they intended to use to announce the discovery, in which the object was referred to by the internal code name K40506A. Typing this code into internet search engines allowed anyone to find the observation logs of Brown's group, including the observed positions of the object. Third-party web server logs indicated that the page in question had been accessed by an IP address used by computers at the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Andaluc?a where Ortiz's group worked. Brown's group accused Ortiz's group of a serious breach of scientific ethics and asked the Minor Planet Center to strip them of discovery status. Ortiz later admitted he accessed the internet telescope logs, downloading the relevant information a day before making his announcement, but denied any wrongdoing. He concedes that it was Brown's team that had discovered the object." Sterling K. Webb -------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl> To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:17 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313) > >> Suggested names have yet to >> be submitted for two of Brown's group's other famous KBOs: 2005 FY9 and >> 2003 EL61. > > ?? Naming rights and formal discovery credit for 2003 EL61 are not > Brown's: but Ortiz et al.'s.... > > - Marco > > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek > Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) > > e-mail: meteorites_at_dmsweb.org > private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org > ----- > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Thu 14 Sep 2006 05:42:19 PM PDT |
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