Kuiper Belt Gets New Notches
- Mon 08 Aug 2011 02:56:PM
The map of the solar system may be due for a little updating. A telescopic sky survey has turned up 14 new objects in and around the Kuiper Belt, the icy debris field out past Neptune. [Scott Sheppard et al., " A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects "] [More]
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