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2. Eris (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

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   For a period of time, the object became known to the wider public as Xena. "Xena" was an informal name used internally by the discovery team, inspired by the title character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. The discovery team had reportedly saved the nickname "Xena" for the first body they discovered that was larger than Pluto.

3. Lucy Lawless - Wikipedia

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   Observations made by New Horizons subsequently found Pluto to be marginally larger than the object, which was ultimately named Eris. The object's nickname "Xena" was used in the press. New Scientist magazine polled the public on their preferred final name for the so-called tenth planet; "Xena" ranked number 4. [59]

4. Michael E. Brown - Wikipedia

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   The Search for Planet Nine Archived November 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine Konstantin Batygin's and Brown's blog; Brown's Talk on How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming Part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series; The Tenth Planet, by Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, July 24, 2006

5. Xena - Wikipedia

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   Xena is a fictional character from the Xena: Warrior Princess franchise, portrayed by New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless and co-created by Robert Tapert and John Schulian. She first appeared as a villain in the 1995–1999 television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys before joining forces with Hercules.

6. The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered ...

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   Pluto's reign. For decades, students learned the phrase "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" to remember the order of the planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ...

7. Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore? - AOL

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8. Webb telescope reveals surprising details of Pluto's ... - AOL

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   It is about half the diameter and an eighth the mass of Pluto, a dwarf planet that resides in a frigid region of the outer Solar System called the Kuiper Belt, beyond the most distant planet Neptune.

9. Planets beyond Neptune - Wikipedia

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   In 1978, Pluto was conclusively determined to be too small for its gravity to affect the giant planets, resulting in a brief search for a tenth planet. The search was largely abandoned in the early 1990s, when a study of measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft found that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit were due to a slight ...