Eris occultation in Nature

[vicent_peris]

Hi,

Today Nature published a letter where I am coauthor about the results of an observation of a star occultation by TNO Eris. You can read the abstract here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/nature10550.html

Dr Jan Fabregat and myself contributed with an observation from the observatory of the University of Valencia. We observed the target star with a 60 cm RC and a Watec videocamera. Finally the occultation band passed across South America, so we didn't see any decrease in brightness of the star here in Spain.

From these observations we conclude that the size of Eris is almos the same as Pluto's. It is also very interesting the measurement of the albedo: 0.96. This means that Eris reflects the light of the Sun as an astronomical mirror.  This is surely due to a frozen atmosphere on the surface of the dwarf planet..


Best regards,
Vicent.

[Jack Harvey]

Wow, getting published in Nature!  Does not get any better than that.  Probably THE most prestigious science journal IMO.  Congrats for sure.

[sleshin]

Hi Vicent,

Must agree with Jack, a terrific accomplishment for you and your colleagues. And, a very interesting letter. You should be very proud. Congratulations.

Steve

[alvinjamur]

Congratulations!!!!

- aLV

[Lex]

Hi Vicent,

Wow that's worth a big CONGRATULATION!
Nice Interesting writing 

[Rory]

Man, that's amazing! I'm pretty uninformed and even I know that getting published in Nature is a big deal!
Congrats from the bottom of the scientific food chain