The planet - a giant lump of rock and ice, more than nine billion miles from the Sun ... Meet Xena, the first new planet to be found in our solar system since Pluto. Sunday 31 July 2005 00:00 BST.

PASADENA, Calif. – Few planet hunters stand to gain as much as Michael Brown if our solar system balloons to 12 planets under a new definition. He's spotted more than a dozen objects that might ...

The dwarf planet formerly known as Xena received a new name Thursday, while Pluto was given a number to reflect the loss of its status as a planet. Michael Brown, a professor of planetary ...

Xena Awarded “Dwarf Planet” Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight “Classical” Planets by SpaceRef August 24, 2006 July 15, 2024. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...

Will Xena become 10th planet, or will Pluto be demoted? Alicia Chang Associated Press. Los Angeles ... Should this newly found icy rock known as "2003 UB313" become the 10th planet?

Xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim little satellite called Gabrielle, its discoverers say ...

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Now, new results from an independent team appear to confirm this, finding Xena is about 30% wider than Pluto. However, astronomers are bitterly divided over what constitutes a planet.

The astonishing find has reignited the debate about what properties an object has to possess in order to be classed as a planet. In Xena's favour is its size. With a diameter of perhaps 2,800km (1,700 ...

Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got ...