Massive crater found on distant world far beyond Neptune
An artist’s impression of 2002 MS4, made earlier than the brand new measurements of its form
Courtesy Superpartes/Area Engine planetary Database Wiki, CC-BY-SA.
An object within the outer photo voltaic system seems to have had an enormous chunk taken out of it in a violent collision, regardless of such impacts being uncommon at this distance from the solar.
Flavia Rommel on the Federal College of Know-how in Brazil and her colleagues enlisted the assistance of tons of of novice astronomers to check the distant world 2002 MS4, discovered past Neptune’s orbit within the Kuiper belt. The so-called trans-Neptunian object (TNO), found in 2002, …
