Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Japanese astronomers spot new class of object in the Kuiper Belt

An artist's impression of the newly-discovered object

While astronomers are still hunting for a huge new planet somewhere beyond Neptune, smaller objects have been turning up with surprising regularity lately. Now, a team at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has discovered a new class of object that has long been thought to exist in the Kuiper belt on the fringes of the solar system. It's a small body on the scale of a few kilometers.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2CVK5wf

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