Beyond Pluto

• Autores: Will Gater
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3048, 2015, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With Pluto rapidly shrinking from view, NASA's New Horizons probe is slipping further into a vast unexplored wilderness known as the Kuiper belt. This great frigid expanse beyond the gas giant Neptune is home to millions of icy bodies, known as Kuiper belt objects, many of which are thought to be pristine remnants from the birth of their planetary neighborhood some 4.6 billion years ago. Here, Gater reports New Horizons' Pluto mission.