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Mike Brown, discoverer or codiscoverer of 15 dwarf planets (as defined by the IAU), has a fairly new page about the so-called dwarf planets, and at least two known ones have orbits which cross that of the "Muriel" x-planet proposed by Julian Kane (not necessarily in the same plane).
The Dwarf Planets
by Mike Brown
Caltech
name
average
distance
from sun
(semimajor
axis, AU)
estimated size
(km)
2004TY364 38.72 540
2002KX14 39.01 560
2002XV93 39.22 430
2003VS2 39.27 610
1999TC36 39.27 440
2001QF298 39.30 490
Orcus
39.34 1100
2003AZ84 39.45 710
Pluto
39.53
2300
Ixion
39.65 980
Huya
39.76 480
2005RN43 41.53 740
1995SM55 41.64 470
2002MS4 41.90 740
2004SB60 41.97 560
2004GV9 42.23 680
2002UX25 42.53 810
Varuna
42.90 780
2002TX300 43.11 800
1996TO66 43.19 540
2003OP32 43.24 650
2003EL61 43.31 2000
Quaoar
43.58 1290
2003QW90 43.65 560
1999CD158 43.69 410
1997CS29 43.87 410
2000CN105 44.65 430
1998WH24 45.56 450
2005FY9 45.66 1600
2004PR107 45.75 520
2003MW12 45.94 740
2002CY248 46.18 410
2002KW14 47.08 510
2002AW197 47.30 940
2002WC19 47.67 410
2003QX113 49.56 450
2003FY128 49.77 430
2001UR163 51.40 620
2002TC302 55.02 710
1999DE9 55.72 490
2004XR190 57.36 540
2000YW134 57.77 430
Eris
67.69 2400
2005RM43 89.73 560
Sedna
486.0 1800

33 posted on 08/05/2007 9:11:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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They should name planets after non-pagan deities.

Xena was an acceptable name, but they went with Eris.

49 posted on 08/06/2007 4:54:51 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Shouldn’t Ceres be in the list?


50 posted on 08/06/2007 5:03:02 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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37 KBOs as bright as Pluto.


57 posted on 04/10/2014 7:56:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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