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

Presenter Full Name
Dr. Chad Trujillo
Institution
California Institute of Technology
Year & Semester
2003 Spring
Presentation Date
March 3, 2003

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.