Discoveries by David L. Rabinowitz

dwarf planet in the Solar System

Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a disk of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the fourth largest trans-Neptunian object and the largest member of the classical Kuiper belt, having a diameter 60% that of Pluto. It was discovered on March 31, 2005 by American astronomers Michael E. ("Mike") Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz at Palomar Observatory. As one of the largest objects found by this team, the discovery of Makemake contributed to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.

Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory, and formally announced in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, who had discovered it that year in precovery images taken by the team in 2003. From that announcement, it received the provisional designation .

dwarf planet in the outermost Solar system

moon of the dwarf planet Eris

dwarf planet in kuiper belt

dwarf planet in the Solar system

American astronomer

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

tno

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

centaur

trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

cubewano asteroid in the Kuiper belt

Trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

centaur that crosses the orbit of Uranus

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object