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17
Dec
2009
Kuiper Belt Grows in Hubble’s View

16 hours ago by CCPetersen

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been valuable in the search for solar system objects — including worldlets well beyond the orbit of Neptune. This region is called the Kuiper Belt and it’s a vast ring of icy debris. Material in this debris ranges from dust-sized particles up to objects the size ...

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Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

1 day ago by Neptune

ABOUT THIS IMAGE: This is an artist's impression of a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) occulting a star. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recorded this brief event and allowed astronomers to determine that the KBO was only one-half of a mile across, setting a new record for the smallest object ever seen ...

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16
Dec
2009
Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

1 day ago by admin

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune. The needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping ...

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‘Tiny’ Kuiper Belt Object Detected

1 day ago by red devil

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune. The needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping ...

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09
Dec
2009
Best of the Week podcast- Kuiper Belt at a Childs Level.

8 days ago by chrdann

What is the Kuiper Belt? by Susan, Amanda & Kevin Murph. Susan Murph from the How to Grow Your Geek Podcast and her children Amanda and Kevin discuss Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

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04
Dec
2009
EFH2T: Here, or on the Horizon?

14 days ago by The Ve

My latest post on Everything from here to there: Everything From Here To There » Blog Archive » Here, or on the Horizon?.

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18
Nov
2009
Astrologers and Kuiper belt objects

29 days ago by d.d. mayhem

Astrology is a “discipline” notoriously immune to change. So, what are astronomers to do as more and more good-sized objects, some of them bigger than that formerly-known-as-a-planet … thingie, Pluto, are discovered at the fringes of the solar system? The article ends with Vanity Fair astrologer Mic ...

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16
Nov
2009
What is there after OORT Cloud in our Solar System?

31 days ago by OptimizePC

JAGANADHA K asked: Just wondering after Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud what is there? Did any astronomer discovered anything? There might be some Celestial Mechanics Mathematicians with some mathematical proof that it is the end of our Solar System or there exists something else. system mechanic Download ...

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13
Nov
2009
When We Reach Pluto, The Adventure Will Just Be Beginning [Space Porn]

34 days ago by Bebe Poison

In 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach Pluto and its frosty moon, Charon. But the journey of discovery will just be beginning, as New Horizons ventures out into the Kuiper Belt , made up of icy bodies just like Pluto. Whether or not you believe Pluto is still a planet, it turns out there ...

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12
Nov
2009
Dwarf Planet Rebranding Contest

36 days ago by Alexis Madrigal

Pluto is no longer a planet. Sorry, folks, those are just the facts. But that doesn’t mean that Pluto will be a lonely exile without any friends. In fact, there are four other dwarf planets to keep it company, and maybe even more on the way. Dwarf planets have been defined by the International Astro ...

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