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- Astronomers Find Minor Planet Chariklo Is Surrounded By Rings
[ Watch the Video: Artist’s Impression of Ring System Around Chariklo ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers writing in the journal Nature say they have observed a minor planet which contains two rings of ice and pebbles for the first time. Chariklo sits about 1.2 billion miles out in the solar system between Saturn and Uranus, and the minor planet, or asteroid , has ...
March 27, 2014 - redOrbit - Astronomers find mini-planet in solar system's backyard
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto and can only guess how it got there. The diminutive world, provisionally called "2012 VP 113" by the international Minor Planet Center, is estimated to be about 280 miles in diameter, less than half the size of a neighboring dwarf planet named Sedna discovered a decade ago ...
March 26, 2014 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - New Dwarf Planet Redefines Edge of Our Solar System
Even after all these years, the solar system can still surprise us. Not just with the occasional new rock — a nifty asteroid, or interesting comet — but sometimes we even find new minor planets and, if really lucky, an entire new region. Now astronomers have done just that: findings announced today suggest there's a never-before-seen minor planet orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. And, beyond that ...
March 26, 2014 - Discover