List of the brightest KBOs
- List of the brightest KBOs
Since the year 2000, a number of KBOs with diameters of between 500 and 1200 km (about half that of Pluto) have been discovered. 50000 Quaoar, a classical KBO discovered in 2002, is over 1200 km across. dp|Makemake and dp|Haumea, both announced on 29 July 2005, are larger still. Other objects, such as 28978 Ixion (discovered in 2001) and 20000 Varuna (discovered in 2000) measure roughly 500 km across. [cite web|title=The Solar System Beyond The Planets|author=Audrey Delsanti and David Jewitt|work=Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii|url=http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/papers/2006/DJ06.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-09] This has led gradually to the acceptance of Pluto as the largest member of the Kuiper belt.
The brightest known KBOs (with absolute magnitudes < 4.0), are:
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* List of trans-Neptunian objects
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