Kuipers Closer To Home, 2 Trojans near Jupiter are KBOs Options

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/01/j...mets/index.html - Asteroids near Jupiter are really comets

--- Patroclus and Menoetius [a binary KBO] are estimated to be about 76 miles (122 kilometers) and 70 miles (112 kilometers) wide, respectively. The two objects are not the first to be mistaken for asteroids: in 1999, astronomers determined that C/199 J3 was also a comet.

Because most comets are thought to form in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of the solar system outside the orbit of Neptune, the researchers think Patroclus and Menoetius formed about 650 million years after the formation of the solar system. ---