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Astronomers have produced a new colour map of Pluto, the most distant planet in our Solar System, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The detailed map shows areas likely to be methane frost and a bright spot perhaps made of frozen carbon monoxide.
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The largest known asteroid could contain more fresh water than Earth and looks like our planet in other ways, according to a new study that further blurs the line between planets and large space rocks.
Astronomers took 267 images of asteroid [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blo...
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_new_planet.html
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The object designated 2003 VB12 was discovered with the Palomar 1.2-m Schmidt telescope on November 14, 2003 and has also been found on sky photographs taken in 2001 and 2002. Orbit computations show that the object's distance from the Sun varies between 76 and about 900 Astronomical Units. Its cur...
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Title: Detection of methane on Kuiper Belt Object (50000) Quaoar Authors: E.L. Schaller, M.E. Brown The near-infrared spectrum of (50000) Quaoar obtained at the Keck Observatory shows distinct absorption features of crystalline water ice, solid methane and ethane, and possibly other higher o...
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(136108) 2003EL61
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Jose Luis Ortiz of Sierra Nevada Observatory has seemingly found a very large Trans Neptunian object while checking out some old images from their TNO survey that was started in 2002. They managed to recover the object on the 29th from the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca. They measure...
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90482 Orcus (originally known by the provisional designation 2004 DW) is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) and a likely dwarf planet that was discovered by Michael Brown of Caltech, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Asteroid 136472 (2005 FY9) 2003 EL61 and 2003UB313 orbits 52 AU from the Sun. 2005 FY9 is estimated to have an absolute magnitude of -0.4; with a Pluto-like albedo of 0.6 this would give it a diameter that is slightly less than the diameter of Pluto, about 1990km. But if it's darker (Sedna is ~ 0.1) then i...
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