Reflecting on the Kuiper belt. (Astronomy).(origin, size of satellites in Kuiper Belt as determined by surface reflectivity )(Brief Article)

Science News | September 21, 2002 | Copyright

Over the past 2 years, scientists have discovered that 7 of the roughly 500 known objects in the Kuiper belt--the reservoir of comets and other frozen objects just beyond Neptune's orbit--have moons (SN: 5/4/02, p. 285). Several of the moons appear nearly as large as the bodies they circle.

According to a common theory, each moon was created when an interloping body smashed into a large Kuiper belt object. However, the estimated number of potential impactors is too few to explain the number of large moons, says S. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in ...

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