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Kuiper belt object shows hint of activity

Astronomers found tentative evidence that an object some 30 times farther from the sun than the Earth recently vented gas and dust to create an atmosphere.

References:

Fletcher, E., A. Fitzsimmons, et al. 1998. HST observations of the Kuiper-belt. European Southern Observatory Workshop. November. Garching, Germany.

Sources:

Alan Fitzsimmons
Queen’s University of Belfast
Department of Pure and Applied Physics
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland

Edel Fletcher
Queen’s University of Belfast
Department of Pure and Applied Physics
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland

Brian G. Marsden
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12, 1998, p. 379.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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