Discover a new dwarf planet about the size of a Pluto in the Solar System
A new dwarf planet about the size of a quarter of Pluto appears in the Solar System, surprising the scientific community.
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This new dwarf planet was discovered by Matthew Holman, a scientist from the Pan-STARRS Solar System Survey and a group from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts. They named it 2010 JO179.
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2010 dwarf planet JO179 is red, the time around an orbit is 30.6 hours, and is operating at the edge of Neptune's orbit so the light resonates with this star.
According to experts, in the future, 2010 dwarf planet JO179 can fly into the atmosphere at the edge between the Sun and Earth.
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