Pluto: A whole new world

• Autores: Stephen Battersby
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3066, 2016, págs. 42-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Battersby discusses the giant mysteries of Pluto. Pluto's home, the Kuiper belt, is made up of small bodies left over from planet formation, known as planetesimals. New Horizons is now plotting course for one, 2014 MU69. According to the traditional picture, planetesimals grew in the early days of the solar system as little rocks gradually came together to make bigger rocks. This process should produce a lot of objects a few kilometers in diameter, and far fewer objects tens or hundreds of kilometers across