"There's a group called the Cold Classicals that move in relatively circular orbits, and are nearly aligned in the same plane as the orbits of the [...]
Full story at http://spacefellowship.com/news/art23478/kuiper-belt-of-many-colors.html
Friday, October 29, 2010
Kuiper Belt of Many Colors
The sun isn't kind to objects without atmospheres. Bombarded by solar radiation, the surfaces of some comets, for example, tend to be a charred carbon-black. But the 1,000 objects so far directly imaged in the Kuiper Belt ? that swath of icy bodies circling around the sun with Pluto ? appear to be a wide range of colors: red, blue, and white.
"There's a group called the Cold Classicals that move in relatively circular orbits, and are nearly aligned in the same plane as the orbits of the [...]
"There's a group called the Cold Classicals that move in relatively circular orbits, and are nearly aligned in the same plane as the orbits of the [...]
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