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Scientists Might Just Have Discovered Another Dwarf Planet Sibling For Pluto
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Scientists Might Just Have Discovered Another Dwarf Planet Sibling For Pluto
Pexels In 2006, Ceres – located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt – was officially classified as a Dwarf Planet. This title refers to a body which is smaller than a planet, with many of the same attributes, but hasn’t cleared its orbit of other objects or debris – and with Pluto, Haumea, Eris and Makemake alongside it as the five dwarf planets in our solar system, Ceres is in good company. Excitingly, a team of scientists has recently dis…
Baptized provisionally from 2023 KQ14, the celestial object was called Ammonite by researchers in Japan, responsible for the discovery, published on 14 July in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy. The name is a tribute to the fossil of the ammonia, an outer mollusc, and refers to the research project that revealed it: the Formation of the External Solar System: An Icy Legacy, or simply FOSSIL.
The confirmation of a new member of the Solar System in a region beyond Pluto reopened the scientific debate on the evolution of the planetary system. Although the space probes have traveled part of the nearest bodies, there is a little studied area, where gravitational interactions are weak and objects behave unusually.This type of findings not only expand astronomical knowledge, but also allow contrasting hypotheses that until now did not have…
Cosmic FOSSIL hunter finds Ammonite: New body beyond Pluto identified
A small body beyond Pluto has been found part of the FOSSIL survey project, taking the number of sednoids to four; we learn more about the new discovery.Artist’s illustration of the distant Solar System object nicknamed "Ammonite." (Credit: AI-generated illustration by Ying-Tung Chen (ASIAA))A small body with a strange orbit has been discovered by the FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy) using the Subaru Telescope in Hawai…
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