Tuesday, April 8, 2014

4/11/14 Technology Article

          A new dwarf planet discovered? Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet so far from Pluto that it's on a new edge of the Solar System! It's known as 2012 VP113 and is in a wasteland of the Solar System. This planet's orbit reaches to a new edge of the Solar System. This planet is known to be odd because of its orbit. The closest it ever gets to the Sun is still extremely far away. It's distance from the Sun is eighty-three times the amount we are from the Sun. The reason it's a dwarf planet is because of how it has no gravitational dominance.

CNN
In this combined image, the colored dots show the movement of 2012 VP113. Each image was taken two hours apart.

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