From today's news

[Jeremy Osner]

Astronomers Admit They Made Neptune Up


LONDON-- An elaborate,
155-year-old hoax was
revealed Monday, when the
Royal Astronomical Society
confessed that the planet
Neptune does not exist. "It
appears to have begun in
1846, when Johann Galle
needed a big discovery to give
his career a jump-start, so he
fabricated this new planet,"
said Royal Astronomical
Society president N.O. Weiss.
"Ever since, every astronomer
who's wanted some attention
has come up with some new
report on 'Neptune' and made
up some rubbish to support it.
I swear, we meant to come
clean eventually, but the
whole thing just kind of
snowballed."

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