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It wasn’t his goal to kill Pluto
- Mike Brown told EarthSky that it wasn’t his goal to kill Pluto. The Caltech astronomer has discovered hundreds of objects in the outer limits of our solar system, but it was his discovery of the dwarf planet Eris that caused International Astronomical Union to demote Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the 2010 memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. [1] [2]
- Michael E. Brown
- 2010
Jul 30, 2021 · In 2005 Professor Mike Brown and his team discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system. Eris, as it is now known, was more massive than Pluto and left astronomers with a...
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Nov 19, 2010 · Mike Brown is best known as the man who killed Pluto. The Caltech astronomer led the team that discovered Eris, a rocky world circling the sun far beyond Pluto, in 2005. Eris was thought to be...
Aug 24, 2011 · Caltech researcher Mike Brown led the team that found the dwarf planet Eris in 2005. The discovery helped spur astronomers to rethink the definition of "planet," and ultimately strip Pluto of...
Dec 7, 2010 · We never thought much about it: That's just the way it was. But in 2005, Mike Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, discovered a tenth.
In his fascinating book, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Caltech astronomer Mike Brown sheds light on the root causes of Pluto’s death: his exploration of the Kuiper Belt and discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
