Recent news on the debate over Pluto's planethood
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
Earlier this month, Eris -- the distant world first discovered by Caltech's Mike Brown and colleagues back in 2005, paving the way for the eventual demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet -- passed fortuitously in front of a faint star in the constellation Cetus.