James Elliot

“The lead author of the study, MIT professor of planetary astronomy, James Elliot, told BBC News that... he had to get together a team of 42 astronomers from 18 observation stations located in Austral…”

“his team used a number of observation stations along a 5,900km stretch of the Earth's surface that corresponded to the predicted shadow path of the space body.”

“He said that a dwarf planet known as Haumea might have been hit by another object, and this impact caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen smaller pieces, including KBO 55636.”

“We found out that this object is much smaller than we thought before and that it is very reflective - it reflects most of the light that hits the surface.”

“the recently observed KBO 55636 probably formed as a result of a space collision about one billion years ago.”

“a dwarf planet known as Haumea might have been hit by another object, and this impact caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen smaller pieces, including KBO 55636.”

“he had to get together a team of 42 astronomers from 18 observation stations located in Australia, South Africa, Mexico and the US.”

“a number of observation stations along a 5,900km stretch of the Earth's surface”