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Showing posts with label Kuiper Belt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kuiper Belt. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2018

An asteroid on the cold outer edge of the solar system


The international team of astronomers discovered in the Kuiper belt an extraordinary object that turned out to be, as it turned out, a carbon-rich asteroid. This asteroid became the first of its kind object identified on the cold outer edge of the solar system. Probably, this mysterious object formed in the Main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Six seconds comet collision


The 192 light years distant star 49 Cetin is surrounded by a huge ring of comets, which occurs about every six seconds in a collision. With these circumstances, two American astronomers solve an unsolved problem for 17 years: the star is surrounded by a cloud of unusual carbon monoxide. The comet collisions release the gas, the researchers said in the journal "Astrophysical Journal."

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Planets


Spitzer will revise some of the known planets and their moons, and comets, asteroids and dust spread throughout the solar system. The Centre will employ a significant portion of his time studying circumstellar disks (that surround the stars) of dust and gas found in the nearby stars and thought to eventually form planetary systems 'extra solar' (outside our Solar System) .