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  Pluto-Charon Origin May Mirror That Of Earth And Its Moon

  February 14, 2005 — The evolution of Kuiper Belt objects, Pluto and its lone moon Charon may have something in common with Earth and our single Moon: a giant impact in the distant ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered And Find Outer Limits Of The Pulsar Planetary System

  February 11, 2005 — Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech's Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet ... > full story
• Sun
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  Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? Close Encounter May Explain Some Objects Beyond Neptune

  December 8, 2004 — Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our ... > full story
• Pluto
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  Good News For Pluto: KBOs May Be Smaller Than Thought

  November 16, 2004 — Pluto's status as our solar system's ninth planet may be safe if a recently discovered Kuiper Belt Object is a typical "KBO" and not just an oddball. Astronomers have new evidence ... > full story
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  Sedna Mystery Deepens With Hubble Images Of Farthest Planetoid

  April 15, 2004 — Astronomers studying 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, are surprised the object does not appear to have a ... > full story
• Sun
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  Most Distant Object In Solar System Discovered

  March 16, 2004 — NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than ... > full story
• Jupiter
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  Extrasolar Planets
  Astronomy
  Moon
   

  First Extrasolar Planets, Now Extrasolar Moons

  October 10, 2003 — The European Space Agency is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other ... > full story
• Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
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  Eris (Xena)
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  Solar System 'Fossils' Discovered By Hubble Telescope

  September 8, 2003 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
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  World's Largest Astronomical CCD Camera Installed On Palomar Observatory Telescope

  July 30, 2003 — The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the ... > full story
• Pluto
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  Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission Moves Ahead; NASA Approves Full-Scale Development for APL-Managed New Horizons

  April 10, 2003 — The solar system's farthest known planetary outpost is closer to getting its first visitor. This week NASA gave The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research ... > full story

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