The planet, dwarf
planet or Kuiper Belt objects, so what's the difference? The main thing that
astronomers the most detailed picture to date of Pluto ever do with
ground-based observations.
And that's how they got
it:
They did a series of
pictures of Pluto and Charon, using a newly developed camera called
Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI), which is mounted on an 8-meter
telescope of the Gemini North, located in Hawaii.