It currently includes Pluto, Xena and Ceres, previously the largest object in the asteroid belt that separates the rocky inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) from the gaseous outer ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
If Pluto were a planet, then this object called Xena or, more formally, UB313 should be a planet, too.What the union did, therefore, was to create a new category, the "dwarf planet".
It was discovered in 2005 in images taken two years earlier at Palomar Observatory in California, U.S. Before it received its official name, Eris was known by the provisional designation 2003 UB313; it was nicknamed "Xena" by its discoverers and also briefly termed the "10th planet".
Its discoverers briefly nicknamed it "Xena" after the TV warrior princess.
In the 1980s and 90s she appeared on television shows such as Murder, She Wrote, In the Heat Of The Night and Xena: Warrior Princess.
Since she started as a stunt woman back home in New Zealand in Xena: Warrior Princess when she was 17 years old, Bell has been pretty much game for anything.
Eris, which briefly went under the name of Xena, turned out to be as big if not bigger than Pluto, calling into question whether either of them were a true planet.
The case for 10 planets accepts Pluto and considers the largest Kuiper object, currently called 2003 UB313 (or Xena), as the 10th planet, since it's larger than Pluto.
Having discovered Xena, Brown began studying it in order to describe it in a paper.
Raimi also helped create the TV series "Hercules" and its spinoff, "Xena: Warrior Princess," which for 3 seasons has been the most successful first-run syndicated drama on TV, considerably enriching Raimi.
Still, none of this would work if it weren't for Hargitay's Benson, a Xena with empathy, the woman created from — but not destroyed by — rape.
