http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9446

This is a measurement using the technique -- whose accuracy has already been
proven on other outer Solar System objects -- of measuring their thermal
radiation, a technique not falsely biased by any assumptions about their
albedos.  (Also, the measurement for Quaoar agrees very well with the Hubble
telescope's visual estimate.)

By the way, judging from Quaoar and Varuna, the names of the KBOs are
finally going to start honoring other human mythologies besides the Greek --
and about time, too.

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