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New Icy Dwarf Planet Suggests Scores of Undiscovered Worlds
New Icy Dwarf Planet Suggests Scores of Undiscovered Worlds
   Astro**mers have found a new Dwarf Planet far beyond Pluto's orbit, suggesting that this distant realm contains millions of Undiscovered objects — including, perhaps, a world larger than Earth. The newfound celestial body, called 2012 VP113, joins the dwarf planet Sedna as a confirmed resident of a far-flung and largely unexplored region scientists call the "inner Oort Cloud." Further, 2012 VP113 and Sedna may have been pulled into their long, looping orbits by a big Planet lurking unseen in these frigid depths. "These two objects are just the tip of the iceberg," study co-author Chadwick Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, told Space.com. "They exist in a part of the solar system that we used to think was pretty devoid of matter. It just goes to show how little we actually k**w about the solar system." Read more... More about Sun, Earth, Planet, Us World, and Outer Space ??????? ??????: New Icy Dwarf Planet Suggests Scores of Undiscovered Worlds || ??????: rss || ??????: اسم منتداك
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