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Space & Planetary Science

Big KBO Discovered

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 29, 2005

New world may be double Pluto’s size, New Scientist

“An object possibly twice the size of Pluto has been found – hiding in plain sight. The discovery could be the biggest world in the Kuiper belt of rocky objects that orbit the outer reaches of the solar system.”

Near Infrared Spectra from Mauna Kea of the New Brightest Kuiper Belt Object (abstract), 37th DPS Meeting, 4-9 September 2005
BrightTrans-Neptunian Object, CSIC
2003 EL61, Caltech

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.