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Quaoar Direct Size Measurement

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2002

Chad Trujillo2002

Science / Astronomy

Trujillo and Brown use Hubble observations to obtain the first direct resolved size measurement of a Kuiper Belt object.

Names involved

Chad Trujillo

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