Unix Timestamp: 1104883200
Wednesday, January 5. 2005, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is identified by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on , 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.

Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian AuthorityPresident.

The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.