kuiper belt map?, does it exist? |
kuiper belt map?, does it exist? |
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Dec 16 2009, 09:29 AM
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I just read about new WISE mission been launched to look for objects in KP and over there, and this question came to my mind: does it exist a map of kuiper belt objects? I have not so much clear how Pluto is located up there; I always imagined it just as a planet alone in its orbit, but , as far as I can understand now, there's actually something more similar to the asteroid belt among mars and jupiter; is this correct? Any picture of it?
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Dec 17 2009, 03:22 PM
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WISE can't detect objects as cold as any of the known Kuiper belt objects. It couldn't detect another Earth if such existed within the Kuiper belt, as an Earth would only be 35 K out there. Read starting from "Moving on to the brown dwarf detections..." in my blog entry on the mission.
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