Tag: Kuiper Belt
New Research Reveals Kuiper Belt Duo May be Trio
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of researchers using data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system’s Kuiper Belt. If confirmed as the second such three-body system found in the region, the 148780…