Kuiper Belt Asteroid Triplet Theory
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
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NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.
If confirmed as a triplet, the system — designated 148780 Altjira — could offer scientists a chance to improve their models of how three gravitationally bound bodies move through space together.
Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World , New Scientist , Astronomy Magazine , All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science .
He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics .
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