Full Version: New Planetoid Beyond Pluto
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| New Planetoid Beyond Pluto. Nothing this big has been seen in our solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930. Left: Arrow points at "2004 DW" planetoid in image taken by Mike Brown at Caltech. Right: DW's position in the solar system is indicated in the upper left. Image credit: Chad Trujillo, Gemini Observatory, and David Rabinowitz, Yale University. DW is 1.5 billion miles away and 1,000 miles in diameter, discovered on February 17, 2004, by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) scientists. |
Source -> http://earthfiles.com/
found info on CNN too -> http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/20/ice.world.ap/
Who knows how many more planets are out there, thanks for sharing Nethius 
I thought that Pluto was no longer considered a planet per se, it was a moon of Neptune that "escaped" and its orbit crossed over to Neptune's occasionally.
I believe this news is like 15 years old. Scientists found a planetoid beyond Plato before, but it's so small they considered it merely as an asteriod or small moon. Perhaps now they have reclassified it?
| QUOTE (KayEl @ Mar 5 2004, 03:53 PM) |
| I thought that Pluto was no longer considered a planet per se, it was a moon of Neptune that "escaped" and its orbit crossed over to Neptune's occasionally. |
Pluto is actually a binary planet system, since it has another planet named Charon that is only 12 thousand miles away from it. These two planets orbit eachother and it is thought that they could even share the same atmosphere, Molecules may be drawn off Pluto and turn to solids as they attach to the surface of Charon. Charon has twice the diameter as pluto.
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