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 16 2009, 03:11 PM
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That's the site I was going to send you to. There's a lot of good stuff there:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Animations/Animations.html For the most part I'd call these more diagrams than maps. The job of actually mapping the Kuiper belt would be a bit like taking a census of the oceans' krill. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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