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The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess, as is the religion Discordianism.
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On the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet, Philip Zarka of the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France wondered how astrologers should respond:
In that same year, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.
* Charon ( moon ), a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto
* Ceres ( dwarf planet ), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid
Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.
The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
* Makemake, the largest known cubewano and a dwarf planet
It is not clear whether this companion object is a sub-brown dwarf or a planet.
Coronagraph ic image of AB Pictoris showing a companion ( bottom left ), which is either a brown dwarf or a massive planet.
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De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).
Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the New Horizons probe currently en route to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and the Dawn spacecraft en route to the dwarf planet Ceres.
Another powerful ion-drive mission, Dawn, is in orbit of the large asteroid Vesta in July 2011 and will later move on to the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.
* 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
* 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
* 1918 – Venetia Burney, English girl who named of the dwarf planet Pluto ( d. 2009 )
* 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
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As of 2008, only five objects in the Solar System, Ceres, Eris, and the KBOs Pluto, Makemake and Haumea, are listed as dwarf planets by the IAU.
Pluto and Eris were eventually classified as dwarf planets by the International Astronomical Union.
* Eris, a dwarf planet, a scattered disc object, and currently the most massive known trans-Neptunian object.
* As a result of the discovery of Eris, a Kuiper Belt object larger than Pluto, in August 2006, Pluto is demoted to a " dwarf planet " after being considered a planet for 76 years, redefining the solar system to have eight planets and three dwarf planets.
* 2. 400 Mm — Diameter of the dwarf planet Eris, the largest trans-Neptunian object found to date
* January 5 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is identified by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
Triton is the seventh largest moon and sixteenth largest object in the Solar System, and is modestly larger than the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris.
There are notable exceptions in the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris, which have inclinations to the ecliptic of 17 degrees and 44 degrees respectively, and the large asteroid Pallas, which is inclined at 34 degrees.
* 2006 – The 26th General Assembly of the IAU voted in favor of a revised definition of a planet and officially declared Ceres, Pluto, and Eris dwarf planets.
Likewise too faint to be seen with most binoculars are the planetary moons except the Galileans and Titan, and the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris.
The object was, however, ultimately named Eris and designated a dwarf planet.
The dwarf planet Eris was discovered using this instrument.
The existence of Eris triggered the discussions in the international astronomy community that led to Pluto being re-classified as a dwarf planet.
The dwarf planet Eris and its moon Dysnomia had the interim names " Xena " and " Gabrielle " until they were officially named.
Since Orcus is known to be a binary system, the mass of the system has been estimated to be 6. 32 ± 0. 05 kg, or about 3. 8 % the mass of largest known dwarf planet Eris.
This is the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of 50000 Quaoar in 2002, and 90377 Sedna in 2003 ( published 2004 ) and the dwarf planet Eris.
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In 2006, Pluto was therefore reclassified into a different class of astronomical bodies known as dwarf planets, along with Eris and others.
Callirrhoe has an apparent magnitude of 20. 7, making it even fainter than dwarf planet Eris at magnitude 18. 7.
* As such, an early proposed name for Eris ( dwarf planet )
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It will expand further after its helium supply is exhausted, slough off its outer shell and become a white dwarf inside a planetary nebula.
They were partly correct: a white dwarf slightly more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit will collapse into a neutron star, which is itself stable because of the Pauli exclusion principle.
Cheirogaleidae is the family of strepsirrhine primates that contains the various dwarf and mouse lemurs.
" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.
Some Boeotian vase-paintings show a caricature version of the episode, acted out by dwarf pygmies with negroid attributes, and an aged and lame Odysseus leaning on a staff ; they are the mute survivors of some rustic comedy tradition that is impenetrable to us.
The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569 is a magnitude 11. 9 starburst galaxy, about 11 million light years away.
Proxima, the tertiary star, is a red dwarf of magnitude 11. 0 ; it is almost 2 degrees away from the primary and secondary and has a period of approximately one million years.
BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star whose carbon atoms are thought to have formed a crystalline structure.
Both components are orange-hued dwarf ( main sequence ) stars ; the primary is of magnitude 5. 2 and the secondary is of magnitude 6. 1.
* AM CVn, a very blue star of magnitude 14, is the prototype of a special class of cataclysmic variable stars, in which the companion star is a white dwarf, rather than a main sequence star.
The Chandrasekhar limit () is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.
Solving the hydrostatic equation then leads to a model white dwarf which is a polytrope of index 3 / 2 and therefore has radius inversely proportional to the cube root of its mass, and volume inversely proportional to its mass.
If a main-sequence star is not too massive ( less than approximately 8 solar masses ), it will eventually shed enough mass to form a white dwarf having mass below the Chandrasekhar limit, which will consist of the former core of the star.
The word chaparral is a loan word from Spanish chaparro, meaning both " small " and " dwarf " evergreen oak, which itself comes from the Basque word txapar, with exactly the same meaning.
2MASS J044144 is a brown dwarf with a companion about 5 – 10 times the mass of Jupiter.
They are the predominant race in Barsaive, and the dwarf language is considered the common language.
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