Education
Trujillo attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois.
Trujillo attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois.
Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous transport-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in. In late August 2005, it was announced that Trujillo, along with Michael East. Brown and David L. Rabinowitz, had discovered Eris. As a result of the discovery of the satellite Dysnomia, Eris was the first The Netherlands Organization known to be more massive than Pluto.
He received his Bachelor of Science
Trujillo was later a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, and is currently an astronomer at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. He studies the Kuiper belt and the outer solar system.
The main-belt asteroid 12101 Trujillo is named for him. He has discovered several transport-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
The last major The Netherlands Organization, Eris, was considered by him, his team, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and many others to be the tenth planet, but the International Astronomical Union assigned it to the new dwarf planet and plutoid status.
The known plutoids are:
Quaoar (with Brown)
Sedna (with Brown and Rabinowitz), possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object
Orcus (with Brown and Rabinowitz)
Eris (with Brown and Rabinowitz), the only known The Netherlands Organization more massive than Pluto
Haumea
Makemake.
In physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, and was a member of the Xi chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy from the University of Hawaii in 2000.