VOA NEWS: ASTRONOMERS DETERMINE MASS, DENSITY OF DISTANT DWARF PLANET ERIS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | June 19, 2007 | Copyright

The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Art Chimes

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology are learning more about Eris, the rocky object orbiting at the edge of our solar system that was for a time considered a possible 10th planet. We're learning a lot more about Eris from the orbit of its moon.

Eris is way out there in the neighborhood of Pluto. You remember Pluto? It used to be a planet until astronomers demoted it last year, to a new category they created, dwarf planet. The discovery of Eris, which is slightly bigger than Pluto, was actually a big factor in the ...

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