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Newly Found Plutoid Named 'Makemake' 2005 FY9, a dwarf planet roughly half the size of Pluto and falling into the newly created class of objects currently known as 'plutoids', was recently named by the International Astronomical Union 'Makemake', according to the suggestion made by its discoverer Mike Brown of Caltech. 'Makemake...	15 July 2008 02:52 GMT

Meteorite Fragments May Be Dwarf Planet Remnants The Earth is continuously bombarded by space rocks and small cosmic bodies, probably swallowing up to a few tens of tons of matter each day. Most of these rocks go unnoticed because they burn high up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface of the planet, albeit from time to time larger meteorites and asteroids ...	13 March 2008 04:19 GMT

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Newly Found Plutoid Named 'Makemake'