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...July, Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, made an announcement that took the debate to a whole new plane. Along with his colleague Chad Trujillo, Brown had found something very much like Pluto, only bigger, and last month he declared that the object known officially as 2003 UB313--and temporarily nicknamed Xena--has its own little moon. Suddenly, the question Tyson had raised to make a provocative educational point became something much larger: if Pluto is a planet, then Brown's new object must be one as well...
...come from closer in, falling sunward from the disk-shaped cloud of icy chunks just beyond Neptune that bears his name. Sure enough, when astronomers trained their telescopes on the Kuiper Belt 15 years ago, they started finding all sorts of objects. In the past few years, Brown and Trujillo have been turning up some pretty big ones, including Quaoar (about half the size of Pluto) in 2002 and Sedna (probably a bit bigger than that...
...WAYNE TRUJILLO Lakewood, Colo...
...Solomon Trujillo NEWCOMER DOWN UNDER...
Melbourne-based Telstra's new CEO, Sol Trujillo, 53, will need to steer the telecom giant through some daunting challenges, namely Parliament, privatization and protocol. An IP-based network might help Telstra remain competitive and fully integrated. But a stagnant share price and warnings of an industry slowdown might push the former head of US West to cut costs (and jobs) as the government sells its remaining 51.8% stake, worth $25 billion. More foreign investment could raise Telstra's share price. That, and other regulations, should be decided by Parliament in August...