Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Dwarf Planet Eris Larger Than Pluto
Poor Pluto. It appears that a dwarf planet discovered in the Kuiper belt by Mike Brown of Caltech in 2005 is really larger than Pluto. Still, it has been classified as a dwarf planet, which means it is not quite a planet. It has a satellite called Dysnomia. The picture above is an artist's conception of Eris and Dysnomia relative to the Sun and a field of stars.
Labels:
Caltech,
dwarf planet,
Dysnomia,
Eris,
Kuiper belt,
Mike Brown,
Pluto
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This was lovely tto read
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