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Most Distant Solar System Object Detected
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- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:43:05 GMT
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Most distant Solar System object detected
By Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News
November 9, 1999
Astronomers have observed an object orbiting the Sun that is more distant
than anything yet discovered.
It has been designated 1999 DG8. It is an example of what researchers call a
Scattered Kuiper Belt Object (SKBO).
It is probably about 100 kilometres in size and made of ice and rock. It is
believed to a leftover from the formation of the planets some four and a
half billion years ago.
Full story here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_511000/511911.stm
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