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| | | | | The three new bodies, likely dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris, reside in the Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system. Even larger bodies - some as large as Mars or Earth - may exist even farther away from the sun, far beyond Pluto's orbit. | |
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www.livescience.com
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| | | | | Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years. | |
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astroengine.com
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| | | | | Earth likely passed through "a fold in theheliospheric current sheet," which induced a powerful electrical surge down here on the ground. While science news is filled with rumbling earthquakes and rippling gravitational waves, a different kind of perturbation was felt in Norway yesterday (Jan. 6)-but its cause is a little mysterious. "Electrical currents started flowing,"... | |
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zapatatalksnasa.com
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| | | There are the facts, and then there is more. For the International Space Station, the facts are straightforward and measured, as NASA is wont to do. It begins long ago with endless concepts for a permanent foothold in space, move finally to the first hardware placed in orbit in 1998, a Russian module (purchased by... | ||