Michael E. Brown
Overview
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| align="left" | (90377) Sedna || November 14, 2003
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| align="left" | (90482) Orcus || February 17, 2004
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| align="left" | || May 17, 2002
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| align="left" | || July 26, 2003
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| align="left" | 120347 Salacia || September 22, 2004
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| align="left" | || October 3, 2004
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| align="left" | || December 18, 2001
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| align="left" | || December 20, 2001
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| align="left" | (136108) Haumea || December 28, 2004
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| align="left" | (136472) Makemake || March 31, 2005
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| align="left" | (136199) Eris
Eris (dwarf planet)
Eris, formal designation 136199 Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly...
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| align="left" | (136199) Eris I Dysnomia
Dysnomia (moon)
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! colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap" | Other objects discovered
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| align="left" | (87) Sylvia I Romulus
Romulus (moon)
Romulus is the outer and larger moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia, not to be confused with the directly Sun-orbiting asteroid 10386 Romulus. It follows an almost-circular close-to-equatorial orbit around the parent asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other moon Remus.Romulus was...
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- with Chad TrujilloChad TrujilloChadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris.Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects , which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in. In late August 2005, it was...
- with David L. RabinowitzDavid L. RabinowitzDavid Lincoln Rabinowitz is a researcher at Yale University. He has built CCD cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects, and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth asteroids by half, from 1,000-2,000 to 500-1,000 He has also...
- with Henry G.
Discussions
Quotations
I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.