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 a whole lot of newbie 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, …