Michael E. Brown
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Michael E. Brown is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects, in
Brown in 2021
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is a 2010 memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.
Michael E. Brown
…downgraded to a dwarf planet in the aftermath of his discovery of Eris and several other probable trans-Neptunian dwarf planets. He is the author of How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, published in 2010. He was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with Jane Luu and David C. Jewitt) in 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper…
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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A picture of Eris taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006