April 12, 2006

Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

Xena, officially called 2003 UB313, was first announced in July 2005 and lies about three times as far from the Sun as Pluto. Its brightness indicated it was larger than Pluto, but it was not clear by how much because astronomers did not know how much sunlight its surface reflected.

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