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To: Windflier
Here's the known large Kuiper Belt objects. Haumea was discovered in 2004.


20 posted on 07/29/2011 11:41:57 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Taken collectively, this solar system’s celestial bodies must number in the thousands. It’s so much bigger than we were once taught - and so much more interesting.


26 posted on 07/30/2011 12:03:31 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

I would think this planetoid like object would be massive enough to form a sphere.

Unless there is some strong tidal forces at work from an unknown object I would guess this object had a huge impact event sometime in the past.


35 posted on 07/30/2011 12:34:19 AM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

The chart needs to be updated—a few days ago they reported that Pluto has four known moons. The new one is very small, like Hydra and Nix, not like Charon.


72 posted on 07/30/2011 8:10:07 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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