<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2c82961d-5a28-487c-937c-5697bc3d7ce3/F41C4722-9DA6-4856-88A2-48D73C7EB1C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0615_Giant_KBO_Eris_more_Massive_than_Pluto.html" href="http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0615_Giant_KBO_Eris_more_Massive_than_Pluto.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.planetary.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0615_Giant_KBO_Eris_more_Massive_than_Pluto.html"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0615_Giant_KBO_Eris_more_Massive_than_Pluto.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.planetary.org/img/096023C4-0763-459E-9D71-AB30A0AEF4B0" alt="Eris and it moon Dysnomia as viewed by the Keck observatory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0615_Giant_KBO_Eris_more_Massive_than_Pluto.html"><P class="intro"><A href="http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/0914_Eris_Goddess_of_Strife_Joins_Solar.html">Eris</A>, the giant Kuiper belt object (KBO) named for the Greek goddess of discord, is staying true to its name and once more stirring up the placid community of planetary scientists. In a short paper published in the June 15 2007 issue of Science magazine Eris discoverer Michael Brown of Caltech and his graduate student Emily Schaller announced that Eris is 27% more massive than <A href="http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/pluto/">Pluto</A>, the previous “king” of the outer reaches of the solar system. “This was Pluto’s last chance to be the biggest thing found so far in the Kuiper belt,” Brown said; “these new results show that it’s second place at best for Pluto.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F41C4722-9DA6-4856-88A2-48D73C7EB1C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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