The mass of dwarf planet eris

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5831, 2007, Pages 1585-

  Brown, Michael E ^a   Schaller, Emily L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS; PLANET;

ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; COSMOS; DENSITY; MASS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ERIS;

EID: 34250851784     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139415     Document Type: Short Survey

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15. This research is supported by a Presidential Early Career Award to M.E.B. In addition, E.L.S. is supported by a NASA graduate student research fellowship. We thank J. Aycock, R. Campbell, A. Conrad, K. Grace, J. Lyke, C. Melcher, C. Sorenson, M. van Dam, and C. Wilburn at Keck Observatory, without whom these complicated LGS AO observations would not have been possible.