Chipping Away at a Mysterious Iceball

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Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005stard..33b...4j&link_type=abstract

StarDate magazine, vol. 33, no. 2, p. 4-9

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Telescopes, Solar System:General, Kuiper Belt, Minor Planets, Asteroids

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Pluto, or "Planet X" as it was once known, remains a mystery to astronomers even on the 75th anniversary its discovery. It is a member of a whole class of planet-like objects orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune called "icy dwarfs" in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. A spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 called New Horizons is scheduled to reach Pluto by about 2015 to further unlock some of the secrets of this distant cold planet, Charon, and other objects that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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