Sentences with phrase «dwarf planet the name»

The Goddess of Strife is the Latin equivalent to Greece's Belona and even has a dwarf planet named after her.

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One recent detection is telling: A planet orbiting a roughly 5 - billion - year - old M dwarf, named Gliese 1132, appears to have an atmosphere that might contain either water vapor or methane, John Southworth, an astrophysicist at Keele University in England, and colleagues reported in the April Astronomical Journal.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

In addition to Pluto itself, the remote dwarf planets Eris and Makemake qualify as plutoids, as does the recently named Haumea.

The IAU, perhaps seeking to improve its reputation after demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, chose the names based on a 2013 Internet poll.

Haumea, another dwarf planet, is named for a Hawaiian goddess of childbirth.

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a nearby ultracool dwarf star (which is regrettably a reference to its temperature rather than its rad style) named TRAPPIST - 1 with a record - setting seven Earth - sized planets in its orbit.

Pluto becomes just another «plutoid» Opponents of Pluto's 2006 demotion from planet to «dwarf planet» status have a new reason to be peeved at astronomy's official name - issuing organization.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

This talk, featured at the Keck Week Science Meeting in March 2013, describes several objects discovered and characterized in our outer solar system including Haumea, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after the Hawaiian goddess.

Some of the dwarf planet's features were named after mythologies around the world.

Now, astronomers have given another dwarf planet an official name.

A discordant name for a dwarf planet.

The dwarf planet, just 870 miles in diameter and discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005, is named after a creation deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.

In this artist's illustration, the sun is a small spot (lower right), as seen from behind the newly named dwarf planet Eris.

A new dwarf planet, named as 2014 UZ224 has been discovered and may join the club of five dwarf planets and give company to Pluto.

He thinks Eris is a fitting name for the new dwarf planet because astronomers have argued for so long over how to define a planet.

Burney crater is named after Venetia Burney, who was only 11 years old when she suggested the name «Pluto» for the newly - discovered dwarf planet.

Named TRAPPIST - 1 because it was discovered by the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, the star is an ultra-cool M - type dwarf star with eight percent the mass of the Sun and half its temperature, located in the direction of the constellation Aquarius.

Since the dwarf planet was originally named for Pluto, the god of the underworld in Greek mythology, many of the new titles have been plucked from various underworld myths from around the globe.

Now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named 14 features on the dwarf planet's surface.

Our nearest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri, is an M dwarf; you may recognize the name from the recent discovery that it has a planet orbiting it < with link to story on it from somewhere >.

You can help decide what names will be used on subsequent maps of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, as the SETI Institute announces the launch of its «Our Pluto» campaign.

As a result, Vesta «differentiated» into a relatively dense metallic core (of approximately 136 miles or 220 kilometers across), lighter mantle, and crust, like the rocky inner planets, many large planetary satellite's like the Earth's Moon, and probably most, if not all, of the newly named «dwarf planets» like Ceres.

The planets have been named TRAPPIST - 1b, c, d, e, f, g, and h. TRAPPIST - 1b represents the planet closest to the red dwarf, with h being the most remote.

Great way to learn the names of the eight planets (Pluto is a dwarf planet) and a little about each one.