{"id":4880,"date":"2010-10-11T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:10:42","slug":"eris-and-pluto-find-common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"ERIS AND PLUTO FIND COMMON GROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by Ian O&#8217;Neill, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\">DiscoveryNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThey may have their differences, but it seems that dwarf planets Eris and Pluto have a lot more in common than just their planetary status.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe larger Eris orbits the sun at a distance three-times that of Pluto, so it may not seem possible that we&#8217;ll ever get a glimpse of what its surface is made of. But scientists from Northern Arizona University (NAU) have shown that even this lonely object can be probed from afar.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt the American Astronomical Society&#8217;s Division for Planetary Sciences conference held in Pasadena this week, NAU professor Stephen Tegler presented the results of a two-year study that combined laboratory ice work and observations from two U.S. telescopes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/eris-surface-composition-is-very-similar-to-plutos.html\">FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by Ian O&#8217;Neill, DiscoveryNews They may have their differences, but it seems that dwarf planets Eris and Pluto have a lot more in common than just their planetary status. The larger Eris orbits the sun at a distance three-times that of Pluto, so it may not seem possible that we&#8217;ll ever get a glimpse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}