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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Pluto / KBO _ 2003 UB313 general news

Posted by: SFJCody Jun 5 2006, 10:59 AM

More Keck telescope time booked in the second half of 2006. The LGS observations in August should be able to determine the orbit of 2003 UB313's moon (and hence the total mass of the system)

http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/schedule/index.php?sched=Both+Tels&year=2006&month=-1&go=GO#

Posted by: SFJCody Jul 8 2006, 07:56 AM

Updated/changed papers on Mike Brown's website:
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/?C=M;O=D

More Keck observations scheduled for October:
http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/schedule/index.php?sched=Both+Tels&year=2006&month=10&go=GO#

Post IAU decision lecture:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures/sep06.cfm

"...astronomers are continuing to find larger (and smaller) bodies in the outskirts of our solar system."

Posted by: SFJCody Jul 23 2006, 12:29 PM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2281816.html