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Article: What else is out there?(Editorials)(Discovery expands our solar system)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2004
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The discovery of a planet-like object far beyond the orbit of Pluto makes our solar system seem a bigger, more complicated place. It underlines the fact that our understanding of even our little corner of the universe is incomplete, calling into question NASA's decision to cancel maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble telescope didn't spot what astronomers are calling a planetoid. This dark little world - about 8 billion miles from the sun, and slightly smaller than Pluto - was detected by a telescope on Earth. Yet it was just a few weeks ago that Hubble's latest triumph, the discovery of the most distant known ...