Astronomers Use the Colours of Trans-Neptunian Objects' to Track an Ancient Stellar Flyby Trans-Neptunian Objects reside in the distant Solar System as remnants of the System's early days. They follow unusual orbits and range in colour from reds to greys. New research uses their colours and...

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Ices and organic compounds in #TransNeptunianObjects #TNOs, just spectroscopically revealed by #JWST
#PlanetSci #astronomy

in the #arXiv

Orbit of a Possible Planet X

by Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, and Scott Tremaine
arxiv.org/abs/2410.18170

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