[meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

[Sterling K. Webb]

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 Astrofísica de Andalucía
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
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
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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
>
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