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To: BenLurkin
Thanks to new telescopes, they've found multiple Pluto-sized "dwarf" planets in orbits just beyond Pluto's own orbit.

Some astronomers think a much larger object--possibly a gas giant planet or even a very faint brown dwarf--might be orbiting the Sun, but very far away from the Sun in a possibly highly-elliptical orbit. With the launching of the James Webb Space Telescope with its massive infrared sensor in a few years, we might be finally be able to find that object for the first time.

13 posted on 07/12/2016 8:57:03 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

See post 33.

NASA is launching a new exploration of Pluto. Sure. That’s what it’s for.


34 posted on 07/12/2016 2:22:13 PM PDT by firebrand
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