Mike Brown is now on blueskyExcited to start the second night of our Planet Nine search. Weather on Mauna Kea is, once again, perfect. Except that for some reason the telescope has lost all contact with the camera that sits on top of the telescope. This is..... not good. Instrument problems are always frustrating, but especially when the weather is as spectacular as looks like it is going to be tonight.
something something friday the 13th mumble mumble something
We lost the first two hours of the night to some instrument problems but the gremlins have been purged and we are on the sky. But what is the chance that Planet Nine is RIGHT WHERE WE WOULD HAVE LOOKED AN HOUR AGO? Given my current luck, nearly 100%, I'd say.
malicious captain kangaroo@Mikebrown this is going to be one hell of an ultimate discovery, Mike. I've been following your work for however many years it's been since you guys initially set down the marker of something serious being here, something that the outer solar system clearly must have been broadcasting for eons.
I don't think any of the P9 news pieces I've read have done justice to the boundary between finding cute math, and observationally confirming actual predictions that your cute math made! I'm v excited.
Paranoid Android 🤖@Mikebrown have you tried looking in Margaritaville?