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An Earth-like planet could be hiding at the edge of our solar system
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
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Trans-Neptunian Objects And The Kuiper Belt
Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are celestial bodies located in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. This region, known as the Kuiper Belt, is home to a diverse array of icy bodies ...
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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
As they separated and this icy kiss ended, the team thinks that ... "The first is looking at how this applies to the other large Kuiper Belt Objects with large moons, like Eris and Dysnomia ...
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.
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On this date: New Horizons probe launches for Pluto and beyond
On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from ... its nine-year journey to the icy dwarf planet.