 {| class="wikitable outercollapse" align="right" style="margin: 0 1em 1em" |- | colspan="2" align="center" | 260px|michael (mike) e. brown |- | colspan="2" align="center" | michael e. brown |- {| class="wikitable collapsible innercollapse" ! colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap" | trans-neptunian objects discovered: 16 |- | align="left" |   || december 18, 2001 |- | align="left" |    || december 20, 2001 |- | align="left" |   || january 10, 2002 |- | align="left" |   || may 17, 2002 |- | align="left" | quaoar  || june 4, 2002 |- | align="left" |   || november 3, 2002 |- | align="left" |    || july 26, 2003 |- | align="left" | sedna   || november 14, 2003 |- | align="left" | orcus   || february 17, 2004 |- | align="left" | salacia   || september 22, 2004 |- | align="left" |    || october 3, 2004 |- | align="left" | haumea   || december 28, 2004 |- | align="left" | eris   || january 8, 2005 |- | align="left" | makemake   || march 31, 2005 |- | align="left" | (136199) eris i dysnomia  || september 10, 2005 |- | align="left" |   || july 17, 2007 |- ! colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap" | other objects discovered |- | align="left" | (87) sylvia i romulus || february 18, 2001 |- | colspan="2" align="left" style="font-size: smaller" | :  with chad trujillo :  with david l. rabinowitz :  with henry g. roe :  with kristina m. barkume :  with glenn smith :  sole credit went to [[jos
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