NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission originally set out to prove. When the spacecraft slammed into the small asteroid ...
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A Distant Outlier Redraws the Solar System Map: 2017 OF201’s Orbit and the Limits of Planet Nine
“The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The solar system suddenly has a new member. A new object ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object ...
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