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Published online 29 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050725-13
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Santa and little helper seen beyond Pluto
Competing teams spy objects on fringe of Solar System.
Two sets of astronomers have spotted a new planetoid in the outskirts of our Solar System. It is the brightest object in the region after Pluto, and it has its own small moon.
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