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Michael E. Brown
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American planetary astronomer
Film & TV
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Known for
- Searching for Planet 9 — Self2022
- Pluto and Beyond — Himself2019
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1965-06-05 ) June 5, 1965 (age 60) , Huntsville, Alabama , U.S.
- Education
- Princeton University ( AB ) , UC Berkeley ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Discovery of Eris and other trans-Neptunian objects , How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
- Spouse
- Diane Binney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003-03-01</span>"}]]}'>2003 )
- Fields
- Planetary astronomy
- Doctoral students
- Chad Trujillo , Marc Kuchner , Megan Schwamb , Konstantin Batygin
- Website
- mikebrown .caltech .edu
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Huntsville
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Harold C. Urey Prize
- Doctoral student
- Meg Schwamb
- Field of work
- planetary science
- Official website
- www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown
- Image
- Michael E Brown 1.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1965-06-05
- topic's main category
- Category:Michael E. Brown
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- official blog URL
- www.mikebrownsplanets.com
- social media followers
- 1921
- different from
- Michael Brown
- Commons category
- Michael E. Brown
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including the dwarf planet Eris, which was originally thought to be bigger than Pluto, triggering a debate on the definition of a planet.
He has been referred to by himself and by others as the man who "killed Pluto", because he furthered Pluto's being downgraded to a dwarf planet in the aftermath of his discovery of Eris and several other probable trans-Neptunian dwarf planets. He is the author of How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, published in 2010. He was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with Jane Luu and David C. Jewitt) in 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system."
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