Those in charge of such things enjoyed the suggestion as its first two letters were the initials of a man who had earlier predicted its existence.
This object's English name was first suggested by Venetia Burney, an 11 year old who was rewarded with a prize of 5 pounds. Those in charge of such things enjoyed the suggestion as its first two letters were the initials of a man who had earlier predicted its existence. Two satellites of it, Nix and Hydra, were discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005, though its largest moon is much closer in size to itself. Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, for ten points, identify this trans-Neptunian object which, after the discovery of the ninth-largest object orbiting the Sun, Eris, was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
This object's English name was first suggested by Venetia Burney, an 11 year old who was rewarded with a prize of 5 pounds.
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