Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...
but what’s fascinating is that there is a new Kuiper Belt population out there at all," summarizes Fraser. He notes that the ...
Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be ... of matter in the disk of material ...
148780 Altjira is around 6 billion kilometers away from Earth and consists of three Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO), each ... collapse of matter in the disk around the sun. Systems with several stars ...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...
"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!
in which three small rocky bodies would not be the result of a collision in a busy Kuiper Belt, but instead form as a trio directly from the gravitational collapse of matter in the disk of ...
in which three small rocky bodies would not be the result of collision in a busy Kuiper Belt, but instead form as a trio directly from the gravitational collapse of matter in the disk of material ...