EFFECTIVE DATE FOR APPLICATION OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE MEDICAL. POLICIES TO FACILITY BUSINESS. This bulletin (MAPROV-2-12-003-C) notifies facility providers of the effective date for application of Medicare. Advantage medical policies to services rendered to a Highmark Medicare Advantage member by a facility or.
Dwarf planets as 'plutoids'. Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake are all known as  plutoids , unlike the asteroidal dwarf planetoid Ceres. A plutoid is a dwarf planet with an orbit outside that of Neptune.Plutoids are sometimes also referred to as  ice dwarfs  due to their diminutive size and cold surface temperatures.ris. When it was first discovered, Eris was thought to be the largest of the dwarf planets, with a mass 27 percent larger than that of Pluto and a diameter of approximately 1,400 to 1,500 miles (2,300 to 2,400 km).
According to the resolution, a dwarf planet is: Small solar-system bodies are objects that orbit the sun but are neither planets nor dwarf planets. Another resolution, Resolution 6A, also specifically addresses Pluto, naming it as a dwarf planet. Not all astronomers supported Resolutions 5A and 6A. planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood [sic] around its orbit [ref].