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On the Fringe
Astronomers look to the Kuiper belt for clues to the solar system’s history
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Google+Beyond Neptune lies a reservoir of rejects — icy debris left to roam the solar system’s dim outer limits having never coalesced into planets. But these frozen relics preserve a trove of clues about the earliest history and architecture of the solar system, astronomers are discovering.
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