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  Faraway Eris Is Pluto's Twin

  October 26, 2011 — Astronomers have measured the diameter of the dwarf planet Eris by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This was seen by telescopes in Chile, including the TRAPPIST telescope at the ... > full story
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  Stardust Discovered in Far-Off Planetary Systems

  September 29, 2011 — Searching for extra-solar planets -- which are planets outside of our solar system -- is very popular these days. About 700 planets are known at the moment, a number that is continuously rising due ... > full story
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  Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White, a Distant Dwarf Planet

  August 22, 2011 — Astronomers have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 -- nicknamed Snow White -- is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing ... > full story
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  NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto

  July 20, 2011 — Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite -- temporarily designated P4 -- was uncovered in a Hubble survey ... > full story
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  Rendezvous With an Asteroid: NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Near-Earth Asteroid in 2016

  May 26, 2011 — NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called ... > full story
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  Astronomers Can Tune in to Radio Auroras to Find Exoplanets

  April 18, 2011 — Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet hunters. Now, scientists have shown that emissions from the radio aurora of planets like Jupiter ... > full story
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  How Saturn's Moon Iapetus Got Its Ridge

  December 13, 2010 — Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's moon Iapetus at the equator. At one time Iapetus itself may have had a satellite, created by a giant impact with another ... > full story
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  Student-Built Dust Counter Breaks Distance Record on New Horizons Mission to Pluto

  October 12, 2010 — A space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to ... > full story
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  Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects

  September 13, 2010 — Beyond the orbit of Neptune reside countless icy rocks known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). One of the biggest, Pluto, is classified as a dwarf planet. The region also supplies us with comets ... > full story
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  Asteroid Found in Gravitational 'Dead Zone' Near Neptune

  August 12, 2010 — There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable, called Lagrangian points. Trojan asteroids have been ... > full story

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