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2. Pluto - Wikipedia

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   Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.

3. Michael E. Brown - Wikipedia

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   Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. [1]

4. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Wikipedia

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   It chronicles the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet then mistakenly thought to be larger than Pluto, located within the scattered disc, beyond Neptune's orbit. The replaying of events includes the adversarial challenging of long-held scientific beliefs between some of the world's leading astronomers and the eventual 2006 International ...

5. Pluto TV Adding 200-Plus Free Movies This Summer ... - AOL

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   Pluto TV is reprising its summer movie event with a rotating batch of more than 200 films coming to the streaming service — all for the low price of free. The titles include installments of fan ...

6. Dysnomia (moon) - Wikipedia

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   Dysnomia (formally (136199) Eris I Dysnomia) is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris and is the second-largest known moon of a dwarf planet, after Pluto I Charon. It was discovered in September 2005 by Mike Brown and the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGSAO) team at the W. M. Keck Observatory .

7. Nibiru cataclysm - Wikipedia

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   [82] [83] However, despite having been described as a "tenth planet" in an early NASA press release, [84] Eris (then known only as 2003 UB 313) is now classified as a dwarf planet. Only slightly more massive than Pluto, [85] Eris has a well-determined orbit that never brings it closer to Earth than 5.5 billion km (3.4 billion mi). [86]

8. Eris (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

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   Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. [22] It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year.

9. Makemake - Wikipedia

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   Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team at the Palomar Observatory, led by Michael E. Brown, [8] and was announced to the public on July 29, 2005. The team had planned to delay announcing their discoveries of the bright objects Makemake and Eris until further observations and calculations were complete, but announced them both on July 29 when the discovery of another large object ...