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Niku the rebel
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post Aug 13 2016, 12:13 PM
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High inclination TNO disovered by Pan-STARRS. ArXiv summary and Michele Bannister @astrokiwi tweeted there might be 5 more objects with similar orbits two even retrograde (110 degrees) in the Kupier belt suggesting there might be an entire population to be discovered.
(The idea of an undiscovered large trans-Neptunian planet might also be in jeopardy.)

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