25 January 2016
Permanent N2 icecap at Pluto’s north pole may be responsible for an expanding atmosphere
... place, long before probes were sent to image its surface. Other trans-neptunian objects such as Charon, Eris, Makemake and Quaoar were also analysed using this technique, and so far, none of the objects have...
12 July 2017
MODIS satellite confirms massive ice shelf rift
... imagery and radiometric measurements of the oceans, amongst other things. With a volume that is twice that of Lake Erie, the iceberg – which is likely to be named A68 – leaves the Larsen C Ice Shelf reduced in area by more than...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
... formed when objects in the Kuiper belt were ‘scattered’ by the gravity of Neptune or the other outer planets. Eris, which is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is an SDO. Although the closest SDOs...
10 September 2018
IAU wrong about Pluto's planetary status say scientists
.... Later, discoveries of other Kuiper Belt Objects with masses roughly comparable to Pluto, such as Quaoar, Sedna and Eris, which actually appears to be larger than Pluto, helped push the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006 to relegate...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
..., other sizeable bodies found lurking in the frigid depths of space have included Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong and Eris, which incidentally is more massive than Pluto. To find this latest batch of TNOs, the team of astronomers, led...
