Odd Objects at Solar System's Edge Redefine Eccen# Astronomy - 天文
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By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
17 April 2002
Eccentricity has been redefined in our solar system with the measurements of
a pair of objects that orbit each other out in the dark and cold stomping
grounds of Pluto.
Last April, researchers announced that an object named 1998 WW31, a comet-like
body orbiting the Sun in the solar system's fringes, had a companion. A new
study, which will be published in the April 18 issue of the journal Nature,
finds that the pair's co
Senior Science Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
17 April 2002
Eccentricity has been redefined in our solar system with the measurements of
a pair of objects that orbit each other out in the dark and cold stomping
grounds of Pluto.
Last April, researchers announced that an object named 1998 WW31, a comet-like
body orbiting the Sun in the solar system's fringes, had a companion. A new
study, which will be published in the April 18 issue of the journal Nature,
finds that the pair's co