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We only recently discovered that there is a tenth planet in our solar system. Now it has been discovered that there is a moon orbiting this planet. Both planet and moon are far away from the sun and other planets, which is why there has long been controversy about whether this is actually a planet or merely an asteroid that got caught in our solar system’s gravitational pull. The existence of the moon gives credence to astronomers who believe we have a tenth planet.

The moon was discovered in September with the use of the Keck II telescope. The tenth planet is not officially a planet yet and has not been named. It’s still known by its designation 2003UB313.
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You read it here first. Now a secret government report says that relief efforts to help Katrina sufferers failed so badly because of military troop shortages due to the Iraq war.

Kim Sengupta reports in the Independent that this confidential US government report details how funds for FEMA were wasted and diverted and how National Guard shortages due to the Iraq war led to catastrophic results. For some reason, even military personnel who were stationed in the Louisiana area during the storm had to “sneak off post,” against the explicit orders of their commanders, in order to help with relief efforts.
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Using NASA satellite imagery, scientists have discovered that 23% of the water released from the mouth of the Mississippi River after the New Orleans floods subsided traveled into the Gulf of Mexico, around the Florida Keys, and into the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists can track the water flow using NASA’s MODIS satellites, together with data from “ocean surface drifters,” instruments resembling balloons that travel on the ocean surface. These all show the outflowing water as a dark plume stretching across the Mississippi Delta, around Florida and up to the Georgia coast.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that they caused too much international alarm with their recent statement that bird flu could kill as many as 150 million people. Scientific predictions of bird flu deaths have ranged from less than two million to as much as 360 million, but there’s no way to know how lethal the pandemic will be until it begins. One thing scientists do agree on is that there WILL be a pandemic.

Emma Ross reports in canada.com that Dr. David Nabarro mentioned the high number at a UN news conference recently. Now WHO’s flu expert Dick Thompson has announced that it’s necessary to put Nabarro’s remarks in the proper context. WHO thinks bird flu will kill an absolute maximum of 7.4 million people, most of whom will be in Asian countries. read more