The existence of the moon will help astronomers resolve the question of whether 2003 ub313, temporarily nicknamed xena, is more massive than pluto and hence the 10th planet. Planet xena, xena, new york times, astronomy, pluto Lucy sherriff mon 1 aug 2005 // 15:51 utc.
The "tenth gets a sidekick
The international astronomical union (iau) has announced that the dwarf planet known as xena since its 2005 discovery has been named eris, after the greek goddess of discord.
Informally, the astronomers have been calling it xena after the television series about a greek warrior princess, which was popular when the astronomers began their systematic sweep of the sky in 2000.
Planet x or big lump of rock? A fight has broken out between two groups of astronomers over who exactly has the bragging rights over the discovery of the possible 10th planet xena. Eris's moon will be known as dysnomia, the demon goddess of lawlessness and the daughter of eris. The discovery of ub313 has led to a fierce debate on whether planet xena can be technically termed a planet.
They nickname the tiny world xena after a fictional television character.
Astronomers in the us reckon they've identified a tenth planet orbiting our sun. The international astronomical union (iau) has announced that the dwarf planet known as xena since its 2005 discovery has been named eris, after the greek goddess of discord. The discovery of 2003 ub313, dubbed the 10th planet xena, was announced july 30th, 2005 by dr mike brown and colleagues at palomar observatory near san diego. Michael brown, a planetary scientist at the california institute of technology, discovers what might be the 10th planet, xena.
The discovery is reawakening the debate over the scientific.
New planet or evicted imposter?, science online, 03 aug 2005 xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim little satellite called gabrielle, its discoverers say. It's 1 to 1.5 times larger than pluto and its orbit ranges from inside pluto's orbit to as far out as three times the distance of pluto to the sun. 21, 2003, using the samuel oschin telescope at the palomar observatory near san diego, calif. Everyone is calling 2003 ub313, the solar system’s 10th planet, xena.
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Warrior princess. by determining the moon's distance and orbit around xena, scientists can calculate how heavy xena is. In september 2006, it was named after the. It's definitely bigger than pluto. so says dr. The main rejection of xena’s planetary status has been based on evaluation of xena’s orbital pattern.
The planet is officially now known as eris.
In december 2005, lucy lawless phoned michael brown to thank him for using the name of a character she played. Technically xena is a type of planet called a cubewano, which means that it must be named after a creation or resurrection deity, according to the iau's scheme. Three us astronomers announced july 29 that they had identified a new planet, significantly larger than pluto, and. The name comes from a tv warrior princess of whom the curmudgeonly centauri dreams, never one for television, was utterly unaware.now xena has been found to have a moon, inevitably named gabrielle after an equally incrutable character on the series (apparently the sidekick of xena.
The discovery reignites a debate about the definition of a planet.
Brown labeled the object a planet and nicknamed it xena after the lead character in the former tv series xena: The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by brown and colleagues using the samuel oschin telescope at palomar observatory near san. Eris's moon will be known as dysnomia, the demon goddess of lawlessness and the daughter of eris. Eris's moon will be known.
The international astronomical union (iau) today announced that the dwarf planet known as xena since its 2005 discovery has been named eris, after the greek goddess of discord.
The nickname had been taken from the hit tv series ‘xena the warrior princess’, and the name gabrielle from her sidekick in. She claimed that she never dared hope the name would stick! For the first time, nasa's hubble space telescope has seen distinctly the tenth planet, currently nicknamed xena, and found that it's only slightly larger than pluto. In late july 2005, researchers in spain and the us both announced, independently, that they had discovered a candidate tenth planet.
9 and 10, 2005, showed xena's diameter as.
The body is around between 2,600km and 3,000km across, and inhabits a region three times as far from the sun as does pluto, averaging a distance of nine. He says it's rocky and icy like pluto. Also, new scientist magazine asked the public to vote a name for the planet and xena was ranked number four ! Observation in 2005 also revealed that planet xena has a moon, nicknamed gabrielle.
Astronomers announced today that they had found a lump of rock and ice that is larger than pluto and the farthest known object in.
Mike brown of the california institute of technology who announced today the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system. The international astronomical union has announced that the dwarf planet known as xena since its 2005 discovery has been named eris, after the greek goddess of discord. It's been a busy couple of weeks of space news, and a busy couple of days for some astronauts orbiting the planet. The names are those suggested by the discoverers of the dwarf planet—mike brown, a.
For example, the faster a moon goes around a planet, the more massive a planet is.
August 3, 2005 the dwarf planet, formerly known as 2003 ub313 (or xena), is now called eris, after the greek goddess of discord and strife. Because we always wanted to name something xena, dr.
