During an occultation event that occurred in November 2010, the dwarf planet Eris passed in front of a distant star. On standby, astronomers conducted a series of measurements of the object as this happened, and learned that this celestial body is Pluto's twin brother in terms of size.
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27 October 2011
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According to a new astronomical study, it may be that the long-held belief that Eris is larger than Pluto is false. Data would now appear to suggest that Pluto is indeed larger than its Kuiper Belt “colleague.” For many years, astronomers have believed that the dwarf planet Eris was the largest body beyon... |
10 November 2010
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In January 2005, astronomers peering into the night sky made an impressive find, a new celestial body which its discoverer first called Xena. Over the years, the finding proved critical, as it led to the creation of the dwarf planet category, and the demotion of Pluto from full-blown planet. Earlier this month, it wa... |
28 October 2010
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A recent series of investigations has determined that the surface of the Kuiper Belt object Eris is similar in composition to that of the dwarf planet Pluto. The announcement was made on Wednesday, October 5, at the42nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, which was hel... |
7 October 2010
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A team of astronomers led by Stephen Tegler from the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff were culling through pictures of the biggest dwarf planet beyond Neptune called Eris, when they came across a startling discovery. The small plutoid (as this type of planets is named) sported major changes in its surface com... |
11 November 2008
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Two years after it was stripped of its privileges as a planet, Pluto takes a new hit coming from the International Astronomical Union which has taken it out of the dwarf planet family and placed it into a rather strange new one called 'plutoids'. The IAU decided in 2006 that Pluto should be demoted from the... |
12 June 2008
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