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JUST IN: Australia's AMSA shares new satellite images of unidentified objects - Object Number 2: pic.twitter.com/XdRTvgFOYX

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The updates have been deemed \"credible enough to divert resources to this area,\" said John Young with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Emergency Response Division. The largest of the objects spotted on satellite was about 78 feet long, he said.

\"This is a lead. It is probably the best lead we have right now,\" Young said.

News of the find prompted Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott to call Malaysia's Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Razak to inform him of the development.

Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur this morning, \"Today what I’m comfortable with saying is at least there is a credible lead… That gives us hope. As long as there’s hope, we will continue… To be fair to the families, we must also show we will never, never give up hope.”

The news provided little comfort to the families of the plane's passengers.

“The one piece of information they want is information we don’t have, is the location of MH370,” Hishammuddin said.

Despite the development, officials were stressing caution, saying the objects will be difficult to find in the vast Indian Ocean and might not be related to Flight 370.

Clouds and rain have limited visibility for today's search efforts, officials said. The Navy's P-8 and a P-3 search plane with the Royal Australian Air Force were both unable to locate any debris today, but other aircraft from Australia and New Zealand were continuing the hunt.

Earlier, American and British aviation officials refined satellite signals from the missing plane, creating two possible flight paths that dramatically narrowed the scope of the search.

The plane was carrying 239 people when it disappeared on March 8.

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