July 08 News & Notes.
July 3, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News
Eris, Xena, or Plutoid? Note tiny Dysnomia to the right. (Credit, APOD & NASA).
Attack of the Plutoids? On June 11th, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) handed down yet another definition for trans-Neptunian objects; a new class of planetary bodies, now classified as Plutoids, have sprung into existence.
