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Ultrawide binary objects in the Kuiper belt may not have come from the earliest solar system, research suggests

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was hypothesized soon after the discovery of Pluto in 1930. In particular, binary ...
SpaceNews

Close Binary Trans-Neptunian Object Discovered

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Science Daily

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me" -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the ...
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SwRI study describes discovery of close binary trans-Neptunian object

SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 28, 2020 -- A new study authored by Southwest Research In-stitute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and ...
Popular Mechanics

These New Celestial Bodies Baffle Astronomers, and Could Be the Missing Key to How Planets Form

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers recently discovered a new type of celestial object in the star-birthing region closest to Earth that could challenge existing theories of how ...