Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic ... that astronomers call Trans-Neptunian Objects. One of the TNOs is Sedna, an icy, reddish object that rotates every 40 Earth-days.
Related: Saturn’s largest moon Titan is bursting with color The first of those objects, dubbed Sedna, was discovered by Brown in 2003. Unlike standard-variety Kuiper Belt objects, which get grav ...
suggesting a previously unknown gravitational influence within the Kuiper Belt. 3. Extreme TNOs Extreme TNOs exhibit the most ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...