Subject: Размеры Варуна и KBO (TNO) 
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Date   : 24 May 2001 19:28 GMT
From   : Denis Maimistov [DenisM] (AstroASchool@mail.convey.ru)
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Денис
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Discovery Brightens Odds of Finding Another Pluto
By Robert Roy Britt
space.com
23 May 2001

The search for another Pluto got a big boost Thursday with a new scientific
report detailing how researchers have incorrectly estimated the brightness
and size of distant solar system objects.
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The study doubles the presumed reflective ability of a giant object in the
Kuiper Belt, a vast region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune littered
with frozen leftovers of the solar system's formation.

The new estimate allowed researchers to pin down the size of this Kuiper
Belt Object, called KBO 20000 Varuna. It is now figured to be 40 percent as
large as Pluto, making it the biggest in a string of recently discovered
KBOs approaching the size of our solar system's smallest planet.

More about this
study is available from the University of Hawaii:

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/varuna.html

Full story here:

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