Data from NASA’s recent Dawn mission answers two long-unresolved questions: Is there liquid inside Ceres, and how long ago was the dwarf planet geologically active? …read more Source:: Science
Tag: dwarf planet
ESO telescope reveals what could be the smallest dwarf planet yet in the solar system
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•Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest …read more Source:: Science
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
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•A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface. …read more Source:: Science
Pluto’s hydrocarbon haze keeps dwarf planet colder than expected
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•The gas composition of a planet’s atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition …read more Source:: Science