{"id":1179,"date":"2007-03-30T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/30\/88-largest-objects-in-the-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T01:59:59","slug":"88-largest-objects-in-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/30\/88-largest-objects-in-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"88 Largest Objects in the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kokogiak.com\/solarsystembodieslargerthan200miles.html\">Every known object in the solar system<\/a> larger than 200 miles across.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=7030\">Cynical-C<\/a>.)  Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29\">Eris<\/a> (formerly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gps.caltech.edu\/~mbrown\/whatsaplanet\/requiem.html\">Xena<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pluto\">Pluto<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%28136472%29_2005_FY9\">2005 FYg<\/a> (informally &#8220;Easterbunny&#8221;); check out the rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kokogiak.com\/solarsystembodieslargerthan200miles.html\"><img class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/solarsystembodies.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now tell me that Pluto is a planet.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/08\/states-have-rights-but-i-dont-think-this-is-one-of-them\/\">Wherever<\/a> it may be.  Or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/08\/16\/the-cash-value-of-astronomical-ideas\/\">don&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, my Caltech colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gps.caltech.edu\/~mbrown\/\">Mike Brown<\/a>, who is the guy who causes all this trouble by discovering all these extra planets, has just been awarded Caltech&#8217;s Feynman Teaching Prize.  Congratulations, Mike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every known object in the solar system larger than 200 miles across. (Via Cynical-C.) Here are Eris (formerly Xena), Pluto, and 2005 FYg (informally &#8220;Easterbunny&#8221;); check out the rest. Now tell me that Pluto is a planet. Wherever it may be. Or don&#8217;t. By the way, my Caltech colleague Mike Brown, who is the guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}