Tag: Kuiper belt objects
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Planet Nine or Planet Nein? The quest to understand the weird outer Solar System
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Some planet-like Kuiper belt objects don’t play “Nice”
When we talk about big advances in planetary science, we often are thinking about Mars rovers or the discovery of exoplanets. However, one area where we’ve learned a lot over the last few decades is the Kuiper belt: a region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by small bodies of ice and rock. Before 1992,…
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