[SunkenCiv]

Thans ETL.

Mike Brown on the planet debate:
http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/whatsaplanet/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/science/space/23profile.html

dwarf planets:
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dwarfplanets.html

Eris:
http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

Quaoar:
http://www.chadtrujillo.com/quaoar/

Sedna:
http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

[SunkenCiv]

I recall how Mike Brown was pushing to have one of the bodies he discovered declared a tenth planet; and I recall also how, after the (indeed, poorly attended, political move to put the imprimatur on a preconceived outcome) vote three years ago, he became like a fanatical anti-smoker who used to be a three packs a day man, or perhaps like a reformed prostitute. Anyway, in a very short time (perhaps even by the end of this year, if anyone is indeed looking) telescope technology will have handed astronomers a number of new discoveries in the outer Solar System, and force the IAU to reexamine their flawed and phony definition.

http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2009/08/dont-try-to-blame-it-on-rio.html

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