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March 3, 2003

Expanding the Solar System: Moving Beyond Quaoar to Super-Plutos

Dr. Chad Trujillo
California Institute of Technology

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Chad Trujillo of the California Institute of Technology will describe the 2002 discovery of the largest Kuiper Belt Object, Quaoar (half the diameter of Pluto), what we have learned from it, and what we should expect to find in the next two years.