Nany Leeder wrote: "On Jan 23, 2003 debunker Sara McIntyre made the statement on her web site that all objects within the circle made by the Sighting Team were "noise". The objects included an existing star, a debunking Faux Pas. So much for Sara's discerning objectivity. "

I'm going to start spelling her name incorrectly, since she seems consistently unable to spell mine correctly. And it was not the 23rd, it was the 25th.

I can't speak for anyone else's quotes, but this one is patently false. J William Dell took a JPG image off my site, then manipulated the contrast and brightness. He then drew circles and arrows and text all over the 400% enlarged image, and posted the image to ZetaTalk. In the image he circled a JPG artifact and claimed it was *not* a star as Nancy claims, but was the "white persona" of Planet X. Neither the star on the DSS2 image, nor planet X was in that image. What J William Dell and Steve Havas circled was in fact, a cosmic ray hit and a single hot pixel.

Exactly what Phil has claimed their errors to be.

One of the major problems that Dell and Havas had with their analysis is that they used no astrometric or photometric tools whatsoever. By using the USNO A-2 and SA-2 catalogs, along with software, it was obvious that the "spot" was not the star in question - it was far off the coordinates. By blinking the frames, it was quite aparent that the "star" and "planet X" were actually a hot pixel and a cosmic ray hit. Dell's "pixel analysis" would have astronomers rolling on the floor (in fact, it did). Dell and Havas (and Nany Leeder) have always claimed anything they could find within an arcminute was game for her planet - even though she stated her coordinates to hundredths of arcseconds.