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Possible Pluto Debris Spotted
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Possible Pluto Debris Spotted
SpaceDaily
Boulder - October 6, 1999 - Planetary astronomers working in the Space
Studies Department (Boulder) of San Antonio-based Southwest Research
Institute (SwRI) suggest that some Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) may be
leftover shards from the giant collision that created the Pluto-Charon
system.
Now, SwRI astronomers Drs. Alan Stern, Robin Canup, and Daniel Durda have
found clues that some KBOs in neighboring orbits to Pluto may, in fact, be
debris created in the Pluto-Charon forming event. Their results are being
presented Tuesday, October 12, at the American Astronomical Society's (AAS)
Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Padua, Italy.
Full story here:
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/pluto-99c.html
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