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Old 18-07-2008, 06:43 PM
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Another Dwarf

There is another dwarf planet out there waiting to be named. The problem is who will name it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_EL61
(136108) 2003 EL61 nicknamed "Santa", is a large Kuiper belt object, roughly one-third the mass of Pluto, discovered by J. L. Ortiz et al. of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía at Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain and Mike Brown's group at Caltech in the United States. The MPC currently gives formal discovery credit to Ortiz's group, who were first to announce the object. 2003 EL61 is generally believed[3][4] to be large enough to meet the definitions of a dwarf planet and plutoid, but has not yet been formally classified as such.
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