[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] By measuring its thermal emission, the scientists were able to determine a diameter of about 3000 km, which makes it 700 km larger than Pluto and thereby marks it as the largest solar system object found since the discovery of Neptune in 1846.

[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] Observations of the binary Trojan asteroid Patroclus have astronomers wondering if asteroids caught in the gravitationally neutral zone of the Sun-Jupiter system might actually be ancient comets and space dust.

[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] In a new study that provides a novel way of looking at our solar system's past, a group of planetary scientists and geochemists announce that they have found evidence on Earth of an asteroid breakup or collision that occurred 8.2 million years ago.

[Saturday, February 11, 2006] The 2005 July 11 C313.2 stellar occultation by Charon was observed by three separate research groups. Here, the published timings from the three data sets have been combined to more accurately determine the mean radius of Charon.

[Saturday, February 11, 2006] New Horizons continues to do well in flight - three weeks down and 492 to go. With more than 99% of the journey to the Pluto system still ahead of us, you might say we are just beginning - and we are.

[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] "We measured the system-integrated thermal emission of the binary Kuiper Belt Object 1999 TC36 at wavelengths near 24 and 70 microns using the Spitzer space telescope."

[Thursday, February 16, 2006] The Edgeworth-Kuiper belt encodes the dynamical history of the outer solar system. Kuiper belt objects bear witness to coagulation physics, the evolution of planetary orbits, and external perturbations from the solar neighborhood.

[Friday, February 17, 2006] "We present the data acquisition strategy and characterization procedures for the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), a sub-component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey."

[Saturday, February 18, 2006] "We have obtained a near infrared spectrum of the brightest satellite of the large Kuiper Belt Object, 2003 EL61. The spectrum has absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 microns, indicating that water ice is present on the surface."

[Saturday, February 18, 2006] For the first time, scientists were able to reproduce the structure of the exotic GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulphides) in the laboratory. GEMS is a major component of primitive interplanetary dust.

[Sunday, February 19, 2006] "Using a fully autonomous spacecraft, Bering, we propose to detect and study sub-km asteroids from an orbit within the asteroid Main Belt in the size range 1 m to 1 km."

[Monday, February 20, 2006] A group of amateur astronomers has used the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory to make the first "through-the- Eyepiece" sighting of so-called the tenth planet, an object orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto.

[Wednesday, February 22, 2006] In a paper published today, a team of scientists led by Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, concludes that two newly discovered moons of Pluto were likely born in the same giant impact that gave birth to Pluto's much larger moon, Charon.

[Thursday, February 23, 2006] In the Feb. 23 issue of the journal Nature, a team describes its discovery of two new moons around Pluto – a finding that made the ninth planet the first Kuiper Belt object known to have multiple satellites.

[Sunday, February 26, 2006] "We have searched the four brightest objects in the Kuiper belt for the presence of satellites using the newly commissioned Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system."

[Monday, February 27, 2006] "Last week, details of discoveries of Pluto's two small moons were published in a pair of papers in the scientific journal Nature. Nature is very much the Rolling Stone of the scientific community, and the discovery won the cover of Nature."