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twin planet Barbarossa/Frey, at 200AU, now on U. of Iowa website   Message List  
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Barbarossa's image is now on the U. of Iowa website,
astro.physics.uiowa.edu, on the homepage. The photo is
labeled "Barbarossa" with the serial number of the photo, and the
date. One may click on the thumbnail for the full photo and a
detailed FITS header. This isn't quite the same photo I analyzed:
it's a 3 minute red filter exposure, apparently not stacked. The U.
of Iowa robotic telescope's tracking failed soon after taking this
photo, and it's not known when repairs will be completed.

Essentially Percival Lowell's "Planet X", I named it "Barbarossa",
from the prolog to a political satire by an author named Fleming,
made into a Hollywood movie in 1945. The magnitude is +18 to +19,
compared to USNO-B catalog stars. It's a twin planet: amateur
photos (Barbarossa by Joan Genebriera on Tenerife with a 16", March
2007; the main moon, Frey, by Steve Riley in California with an 8",
April 2007, and later by both Genebriera, and Robert Turner) and
1986 & 1954 online sky surveys, accurately conform to a 198 AU,
e<0.05 solar orbit; a 0.94 AU, e=0.24 (real) binary orbit;
Barbarossa having 3.3 Jupiter masses and its main satellite Frey
0.46 Jupiter masses. Thus our solar system somewhat resembles that
of Epsilon Indi. Details are on Dr. Van Flandern's messageboard at
www.metaresearch.org, under my name, Joe Keller.




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