Astronomers Find a New Binary Object in the Kuiper Belt

Astronomers Find a New Binary Object in the Kuiper Belt
By Evan Gough

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have presented the discovery of a binary pair of objects way out in the Kuiper Belt. They’re Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) which means their orbit is outside the orbit of Neptune, our Solar System’s outermost planet. This binary pair is unusual because of their close proximity with one another. …

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September 30, 2020 at 05:31AM
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