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== Discovery ==

== Discovery ==

Astronomers Michael E. Brown at the California Institute of Technology, and [[discoverer::Marcos van Dam]], [[discoverer::Antonin Bouchez]], and [[discoverer::David Le Mignant]] of the William M. Keck Observatory in [[Hawaii]], are credited with the discovery of this object. The Keck team used their new Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system to examine more closely the newly discovered [[Kuiper belt]] object originally named 2003 UB₃₁₃ and then given the tentative name Xena.<ref name=Zabarenko>Zabarenko, Deborah. "[http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1473136.htm Planet Xena has moon called Gabrielle]." Reuters, quoted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 32, 2005. Accessed May 15, 2008.</ref> (Xena was the title character in an [[United States|American]] [[television]] action-adventure dramatic series,<ref>The character is supposed to be a princess from a tribe of warriors, either Argive or closely allied with them, in the days of the Mycenean civilization, and a contemporary of, and occasional rival to, Hercules. No historical warrant exists for the existence of such a person or even for a classical poem mentioning that name.</ref> and also is a name beginning with X, in keeping with the suspicion that this object was the long-sought "Planet X.") Close examination of a faint object near the larger object clearly showed that this object was in motion and was not a [[star]].<ref name=VanDam>Van Dam, Marcos. [http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/optics/staff/mvandam/gabrielle Discovery of Dysnomia]. William Keck Observatory. Accessed January 22, 2008.</ref><ref name=Brown3>[http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/moon/ The moon of the 10th planet]. California Institute of Technology. Accessed January 22, 2008.</ref>

Astronomers [[Michael E. Brown]] at the California Institute of Technology, and [[Marcos van Dam]], [[Antonin Bouchez]], and [[David Le Mignant]] of the William M. Keck Observatory in [[Hawaii]], are credited with the discovery of this object. The Keck team used their new Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system to examine more closely the newly discovered [[Kuiper belt]] object originally named 2003 UB₃₁₃ and then given the tentative name Xena.<ref name=Zabarenko>Zabarenko, Deborah. "[http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1473136.htm Planet Xena has moon called Gabrielle]." Reuters, quoted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 32, 2005. Accessed May 15, 2008.</ref> (Xena was the title character in an [[United States|American]] [[television]] action-adventure dramatic series,<ref>The character is supposed to be a princess from a tribe of warriors, either Argive or closely allied with them, in the days of the Mycenean civilization, and a contemporary of, and occasional rival to, Hercules. No historical warrant exists for the existence of such a person or even for a classical poem mentioning that name.</ref> and also is a name beginning with X, in keeping with the suspicion that this object was the long-sought "Planet X.") Close examination of a faint object near the larger object clearly showed that this object was in motion and was not a [[star]].<ref name=VanDam>Van Dam, Marcos. [http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/optics/staff/mvandam/gabrielle Discovery of Dysnomia]. William Keck Observatory. Accessed January 22, 2008.</ref><ref name=Brown3>[http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/moon/ The moon of the 10th planet]. California Institute of Technology. Accessed January 22, 2008.</ref>

== Naming ==

== Naming ==