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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Telescopic Observations _ VLT/SPHERE observations of 704 Interamnia

Posted by: antipode Dec 2 2019, 03:12 AM

This mysterious main belt object comes in from the cold - somewhat.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.13049.pdf

At this diameter, it seems to be a Ceres-like potato, but a fairly relaxed and regular one.
I'm certainly not going to call it a dwarf planet, but it must be somewhere near the boundary...

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Posted by: monty python Dec 2 2019, 07:58 AM

Thanks for the article. Asteroids are a rich load to mine as they tell of planetary formation - destruction. Hard call on dwarf planet or not.