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First Distance Object Spotted Beyond Pluto

By Jenn Loro - May 21, 2016 09:15 AM EDT

A post-Pluto flyby carried out by NASA-funded New Horizons mission on a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 1994 JR1 debunked earlier theory of the ex-ninth planet’s quasi-satellite. Expanding missions on KBOs in the fringes of the solar system could well explain our cosmic origins.

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