“HAVING a moon is just inherently cool,” says astronomer Mike Brown, discoverer of the “10th planet”. So he went looking for one around his controversial object, which he has nicknamed Xena, after TV’s warrior princess. Then on 10 September he found a moon and dubbed it Gabrielle, after Xena’s fictional companion.
“The discovery of the moon will not throw any light on any definition of a planet”
Brown, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, made this latest discovery with the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Gabrielle appeared as a faint dot waltzing with Xena across…
