Chadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo (born November 22, 1973), is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris. Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU is a Celestial body Orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded
Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in. A trans-Neptunian object (TNO is any object in the Solar system that Orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. In late August, 2005, it was announced that Trujillo, along with Michael E. Brown and David L. Rabinowitz, had discovered Eris. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Education Brown is a Huntsville Alabama native and graduated from Virgil Grissom High School in 1983 David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University. This was the first TNO known to be larger than the planet Pluto. Later in 2005, the TNO was revealed to have a moon. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Early career
Trujillo attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park and River Forest High School, or OPRF, is a public four-year High school located in Oak Park Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago Illinois Oak Park Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. He received his B. Sc. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, and was a member of the Xi chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi, and received his Ph. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 History The organization was founded on October 10, 1910, by ten Jewish men at Columbia University, as a response to the existence D. in astronomy from the University of Hawaii in 2000. Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study The University of Hawaii, formally the University of Hawaii System and popularly known as UH, is a public co-educational college and university system that confers 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
Trujillo was later a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, and is currently an astronomer at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii [1]. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena The Gemini Observatory is an astronomical observatory consisting of two 8-metre Telescopes at different sites The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the He studies the Kuiper belt and the outer solar system. The Kuiper belt (ˈkaɪpɚ to rhyme with "viper" sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity.
List of discoveries
He has discovered several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). A trans-Neptunian object (TNO is any object in the Solar system that Orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The last major TNO, Eris, was considered by him, his team, NASA, and many others to be the tenth planet, but the International Astronomical Union assigned it to the new dwarf planet status. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU is a Celestial body Orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded
These objects include:
- Quaoar (with Brown)
- Sedna (with Brown and Rabinowitz) — possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object. TemplateInfobox Planet.--> 90377 Sedna (ˈsɛdnə) is a Trans-Neptunian The Oort cloud ( ort alternatively the Öpik-Oort Cloud) is a hypothetical spherical cloud of Comets believed to lie roughly 50 000 AU,
- Orcus (with Brown and Rabinowitz)
- Eris (with Brown and Rabinowitz) — first discovered TNO larger than Pluto. TemplateInfobox Planet. --> 90482 Orcus (, Orcus originally known by the Provisional designation
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