Eris under scrutiny

Amanda Gulbis ()
Additional contact information
Amanda Gulbis: Amanda Gulbis is at the Southern African Large Telescope and South African Astronomical Observatory, 7935 Cape Town, South Africa.

Nature, 2011, vol. 478, issue 7370, 464-465

Abstract: A stellar occultation by the dwarf planet Eris provides a new estimate of its size. It also reveals a surprisingly bright planetary surface, which could indicate the relatively recent condensation of a putative atmosphere. See Letter p.493

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/478464a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:478:y:2011:i:7370:d:10.1038_478464a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/478464a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().