Kuiper Belt News

Posted September 26, 2009:

• Spot Discovered On Dwarf Planet Haumea Shows Up Red And Rich With Organics

Posted March 3, 2009:

• Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed

Posted September 22, 2008:

• Fifth Dwarf Planet Named Haumea

Posted August 19, 2008:

• Astronomers Find Unusual New Denizen Of The Solar System

Posted June 11, 2008:

• 'Plutoid' Chosen As Name For Solar System Objects Like Pluto

Posted July 21, 2007:

• Charon: An Ice Machine In The Ultimate Deep Freeze

Posted June 18, 2007:

• Dwarf Planet Eris Is More Massive Than Pluto

Posted March 23, 2007:

• Kuiper-Belt Object Was Broken Up By Massive Impact 4.5 Billion Years Ago

Posted January 21, 2007:

• Zooming To Pluto, New Horizons Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter

Posted January 18, 2007:

• NASA Spacecraft En Route To Pluto Prepares For Jupiter Encounter

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Dwarf Planet Formerly Known As Xena Officially Named 'Eris'

Posted August 24, 2006:

• Pluto Downgraded To 'Dwarf Planet' Status; Solar System Now Has Eight Planets

Posted August 16, 2006:

• Bigger Solar System? Astronomers Debate Definition Of 'Planet' And 'Plutons'

Posted May 11, 2006:

• New Capture Scenario Explains Origin Of Neptune's Oddball Moon Triton

Posted April 24, 2006:

• Evidence Mounts For Sun's Companion Star

Posted April 17, 2006:

• Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' Is Slightly Larger Than Pluto

Posted February 23, 2006:

• Researchers Describe Discovery Of Pluto's New Moons

Posted January 17, 2006:

• Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting To Seem Typical

Posted January 5, 2006:

• Measuring Charon: Astronomers Seize Rare Opportunity

Posted December 29, 2005:

• University Of Colorado Student-Built Instrument Set To Launch On Pluto Mission

Posted November 1, 2005:

• Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto

Posted October 3, 2005:

• Tenth Planet Has A Moon

Posted July 30, 2005:

• Scientists Discover Solar System's Tenth Planet Bigger Than Pluto

Posted June 23, 2005:

• NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet

Posted June 17, 2005:

• Journey Begins For NASA's New Horizons Probe; APL-Built Pluto Mission Spacecraft Shipped To NASA Goddard For Pre-Launch Tests

Posted May 7, 2005:

• Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family

Posted February 16, 2005:

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

Posted February 12, 2005:

• Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered And Find Outer Limits Of The Pulsar Planetary System

Posted December 9, 2004:

• Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? Close Encounter May Explain Some Objects Beyond Neptune

Posted November 22, 2004:

• Good News For Pluto: KBOs May Be Smaller Than Thought

Posted April 15, 2004:

• Sedna Mystery Deepens With Hubble Images Of Farthest Planetoid

Posted March 16, 2004:

• Most Distant Object In Solar System Discovered

Posted September 8, 2003:

• Solar System 'Fossils' Discovered By Hubble Telescope

Posted August 5, 2003:

• World's Largest Astronomical CCD Camera Installed On Palomar Observatory Telescope

Posted April 10, 2003:

• Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission Moves Ahead; NASA Approves Full-Scale Development for APL-Managed New Horizons

Posted October 8, 2002:

• Hubble Spots An Icy World Far Beyond Pluto

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects At The Fringe Of Our Solar System

Posted December 27, 2000:

• NASA Seeks Proposals For Pluto Mission; Plans To Restructure Outer Planet Program

Posted October 30, 2000:

• Astronomers Discover Apparent "Outer Edge" To The Solar System

Posted February 2, 1999:

• Pluto Safe From Demotion

Posted October 23, 1998:

• University Of Arizona Scientists Are First To Discover Debris Disk Around Star Orbited By Planet

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