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Recent studies conducted on the small object called Snow White revealed that the small world may still retain some faint traces of a former atmosphere. Some astronomers classify this world as a dwarf planet, although the debate as to what exactly this object is is still ongoing.
Past investigations conducted on the... |
20 October 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A team of astronomers from the Queens University Belfast (QUB), led by Dr. Pedro Lacerda, announced the analysis of a very weird object in the Kuiper Belt, a space rock that looks and spins like a propeller. The findings were presented at a meeting yesterday.
Another interesting aspect of Kuiper Belt object 2011Q... |
4 October 2011
08:23 GMT |
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Pluto was once a fully-fledged planet, considered by astronomers to be the ninth such object from the Sun. However, following a length and very divisive discussion in the international scientific community, the celestial body was demoted to a dwarf planet back in 2006. Since then, many experts have been arguing about... |
23 August 2011
09:21 GMT |
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The number of objects in our solar system just got bigger, with the recent detection of what may very well be three previously-unknown dwarf planets. The objects were discovered near the orbit of Pluto, which is itself classified as a dwarf planet. However, Pluto is not the only celestial body in this class in the Ku... |
4 August 2011
05:57 GMT |
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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet Pluto, at the outskirts of our solar system. The object, located in the Kuiper Belt, will be just the first stop for the probe. Now, the general public has a chance to help experts decided on other targets of interest. The robot is scheduled... |
22 June 2011
09:34 GMT |
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A recent study reveals that the reason Haumea gets its distinctive glimmer in space is because its surface may be covered with ice. The study was conducted by experts with the European Space Agency (ESA), and was detailed in a recent press release.
According to the document, it would seem that the dwarf planet go... |
14 May 2011
03:53 GMT |
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NASA is proud to announce that its New Horizons spacecraft has finally passed the orbit of Uranus, on its long trek to Pluto, one of the farthest planets in the solar system. The probe is due to reach its destination sometime in 2015, mission plans indicate.
This major mission milestone was reached on Saturday, Ma... |
19 March 2011
05:44 GMT |
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According to officials at the American space agency, the New Horizons space probe is currently being prepared for yet another important milestone in tis mission, its flyby of the gas giant Uranus.The event will take place on March 2011, as the spacecraft heads towards Pluto at a speed of nearly 36,000 miles per hour ... |
17 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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In-depth analyses of 101 year's worth of comet data is beginning to indicate that indeed a large, dark, Jupiter-sized object may be roaming the outskirts of the solar system, destabilizing it, and throwing comets towards the Sun and the inner planets. The new data also indicates that around 20 percent of the com... |
30 November 2010
09:01 GMT |
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According to a new astronomical study, it may be that the long-held belief that Eris is larger than Pluto is false. Data would now appear to suggest that Pluto is indeed larger than its Kuiper Belt “colleague.” For many years, astronomers have believed that the dwarf planet Eris was the largest body beyon... |
10 November 2010
04:34 GMT |
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A team of astronomers proposes that Kuiper Belt objects that have a reddish hue may in fact owe their color to the presence of complex organic molecules, that could form the building blocks of life. If this turns out to be true, then the discovery could have significant consequences for the way life developed here on... |
29 October 2010
15:30 GMT |
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A new astronomical investigation offers evidence that disproves the Nice model, a theory that blames Neptune for the large population of binary objects in the Kuiper Belt. The model, which is currently widely accepted by the international scientific community, holds that the gas giant was responsible for knocking a l... |
6 October 2010
10:48 GMT |
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A part of the international astronomical community believes that the outer fringes of our solar system may contain planets the size of the Earth or Mars. While the idea previously seemed implausible, new data seem to point out that this belief may not be that far-fetched. Even if this turns out to be true, scientists... |
4 January 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are proud today to announce an impressive achievement of the New Horizons space probe, the fastest spacecraft every built. After years of traveling to the boundaries of the solar system, the instrument is finally closer to Pluto – its primary target – than it is to ... |
30 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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While scanning our solar system's outer asteroid field, known as the Kuiper Belt, astronomers managed to make a very impressing find. They determined the existence of a very small space object among the debris, no more than one mile wide. This finding makes the rock the smallest one ever discovered in our Sun�... |
30 December 2009
03:08 GMT |
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The Kuiper Belt is a ring of space rocks surrounding the outskirts of the solar system, around the orbit of Pluto and beyond. The formation is similar to the inner asteroid belt, and is one of the major sources for the comets that pass through our solar system. The Belt contains a large number of significant objects,... |
6 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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The concept of solar sails, devices that would rely on solar winds and photons to power up spacecraft traveling through the solar system and beyond, has been around for quite some time now. Although some of the materials theoretically needed for them have been developed, and even a few not-that-successful attempts ha... |
19 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The two objects in the Kuiper Belt (the icy ring at the edge of our solar system, 6 billion km away from Earth) share a common name, 2001 QW322. They orbit each other in what appears to be the faintest reciprocal influence of two celestial bodies in our system, and they have been doing so for billions of years, whic... |
21 October 2008
07:47 GMT |
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The dwarf planet of Haumea, the third largest in the Kuiper Belt after Pluto and Eris, was discovered a few days after the Christmas of 2004, on December 28th, by Mike Brown, a Caltech scientist. Its observed characteristics indicate that it has a violent past, marked by a massive collision with a similar object bill... |
16 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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There are numerous comets orbiting through the inner solar system, but where this huge amount of objects comes from is largely unknown. Now astronomers have suggested that many short orbit comets could in fact be fragments of much larger objects that break up into multiple pieces as they enter the inner solar system ... |
28 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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2005 FY9, a dwarf planet roughly half the size of Pluto and falling into the newly created class of objects currently known as 'plutoids', was recently named by the International Astronomical Union 'Makemake', according to the suggestion made by its discoverer Mike Brown of Caltech. 'Makemake... |
15 July 2008
02:52 GMT |
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The first of these objects, 2003 EL61, was discovered back in 2005 and appears to be a strange shaped body rotating rapidly and chaotically about its axis. The fact that other five objects were found in the same orbit in 2007 suggests that all may have originated from a larger object destroyed during a collision abou... |
23 April 2008
02:49 GMT |
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There is another planet beyond the orbit of Neptune, and scientists say it's not Pluto. Ever wondered what the X in the name stands for? The X is the equivalent for unknown, opposed to the general believe that it represents the Roman numeral for 10. And another thing... how do you discover a planet that has neve... |
16 January 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Now, we consider that the outer solar system lies somewhere beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, meaning for example the Kuiper belt, thought to be the source of the short-period orbit comets, and the Oort cloud lying more than one light year away from the Sun, which could probably be the location where long-peri... |
3 January 2008
05:39 GMT |
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The Sun used to be considered the biggest object in the solar system. Though not as massive and compact as the star, comet Holmes currently has a volume larger than that of the Sun. The second outburst in history took place on the 24th of October this year, when the comet expanded and multiplied its brightness about ... |
15 November 2007
05:31 GMT |
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